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I can’t think of a better place to talk about the future of public lands than North Fork, Idaho. Since the Lemhi Forest Restoration Group started in 2006, we’ve been going out in to the field with North Fork residents, outfitters who use the area, county commissioners, folks from out of town, firefighters, etc. We’ve talked a lot about fire, and rightfully so. We worked together on the Hughes Creek project, creating a more resilient forest that firefighters say saved their ba

My final day in Washington DC ended on a couple of high notes. We started out meeting longtime Rural Voices for Conservation Coalition partners American Forests, The Nature Conservancy, Society of American Foresters, and The Wilderness Society. We talked about a shared commitment to helping find a policy fix for a problem that impacts almost all RVCC members — wildfires and their increasing share of the Forest Service’s budget. Will Whelan of The Nature Conservancy does a gre