Local Links for Biodiversity—Boise, Idaho

Environmental and Conservation Organizations:

Committee for the High Desert
P.O. Box 2863
Boise, ID 83701
Phone: 208-429-1679
www.cihd.org
The Committee for the High Desert is a science-based non-profit grassroots organization that works to protect the High Desert ecosystem, with a primary focus on Southern Idaho, Eastern Oregon, and Northern Nevada. With public land grazing, USAF bombing ranges, off road vehicle use, and current public lands management practices threatening the health of the desert (including logging, road building, water pipeline projects, prescribed burns, insecticide and herbicide applications), the committee uses its scientific knowledge to combat these potentially environmentally disastrous issues.

Community Forestry
4969 Dorman
Boise, ID 83705
Phone: 208-384-4083
Community Forestry provides tree education, public outreach, volunteer coordination and technical assistance to property owners and the community.

Golden Eagle Audubon Society
P.O. Box 8261
Boise, ID 83703
Phone: 208-384-1205
www.goldeneagleaudubon.org
This Boise chapter of the Audubon Society promotes environmental awareness through field trips, programs and volunteer work in the community. The chapter builds nature trails, restores wildlife habitat, and constructs bird nest boxes. Audubon Adventures, an environmental educational program, instructs students in grades 3 through 6. The chapter conducts Christmas and spring National Migratory Bird Counts to monitor bird populations. Additionally, it acquired the Deer Flat National Wildlife Refuge to maintain the refuge’s high level of habitat diversity.

Idaho Chapter of the Columbia and Snake Rivers Campaign
1511 North 11th
Boise, ID 83702
Phone: 1-800-SOS-SALMON
www.wildsalmon.org
This Idaho chapter works to rescue Snake and Columbia River wild salmon and steelhead from extinction. The chapter works with Congress and the Administration, as well as with the Northwest States and Native American tribes. It supports the measure to partially remove four federal dams on the lower Snake River to re-create 140 miles of free-flowing river and habitat and allow wild salmon to swim freely.

Idaho Conservation League
P.O. Box 844
Boise, ID 83701
Phone: 208-345-6933
www.wildidaho.org
The Idaho Conservation League guards Idaho's water, wildlands, and wildlife through citizen action, public education and professional advocacy. It equips citizens with information necessary to protect Idaho’s endangered areas and open urban spaces alike.

Idaho Rivers United
P.O. Box 633
Boise, ID 83701
Phone: 208-343-7481
www.idahorivers.org
Idaho Rivers United’s mission is to protect, restore, and improve Idaho rivers and the communities that depend on them through active citizen involvement. Volunteers and members participate in establishing instream flows, protecting wild rivers, keeping rivers clean and healthy, defending at-risk populations of fish, and minimizing the impacts of dams on Idaho's rivers.

The Peregrine Fund
5668 West Flying Hawk Lane
Boise, Idaho 83709
Phone: 208-362-3716
www.peregrinefund.org
Hoping to reestablish the peregrine falcon in its natural habitat, the Peregrine Fund breeds the birds in captivity and releases them back into the wild. It also worked to rescue bald eagles and the Mauritius kestrel from extinction. It has established the Velma Morrison Interpretive Center for Birds of Prey to instruct the general public about rapidly declining bird populations.

Ted Trueblood Chapter of Trout Unlimited
P.O. Box 1971
Boise, ID 83701
Phone: 208-336-9167
www.idfishnhunt.com/tutedt.htm
The Boise chapter of Trout Unlimited has recently received a grant of $100,000 from the Fish and Wildlife Foundation toward purchasing the Red River Management Area near Elk City, Idaho. It contributed $10,000 to the Henry's Fork Foundation for an initiative and policy research grant for the watershed of the Henry's Fork. It also gave funds and volunteers to a federal, state, and private initiative to restore fish habitat on the Little Salmon River near New Meadows, Idaho. The chapter recently co-sponsored the Woolly Buggers, a fishing education and conservation club for youth in the Treasure Valley and successfully won stronger anti-poaching legislation and penalties for illegal fish introduction into Idaho waters, as well as a new tax credit for land owners to enhance riparian areas.

Winter Wildlands Alliance
910 Main Street, Suite 235
Boise ID 83702
Phone: 208-336-4203
The Alliance promotes and preserves winter wildlands on public lands. Grassroots groups from Idaho, Colorado, California, and Nevada united to create a coalition of individual, grassroots activists who share ideas and resources. The Winter Wildlands Alliance also addresses local and national issues impacting winter wildlands and human-powered snow sports—such as snowmobiles in our national parks—to protect these fragile areas. The Alliance publicizes national issues to raise public awareness of important ecological issues.