The Bear Facts Story and Photos by Jim Fazio In 1984, when I was a professor of wildland recreation management at the University of Idaho, I spent a week in Boise at the Interagency Fire Center. We had
The Pull of Home By Miranda R. Carter The magazine first visited Moscow as a Spotlight City in our April 2002 issue. We figured it was time to have another look. It was one of those nights that
A Note on the Sources By Brandon R. Schrand The following excerpt from Brandon Schrand’s introduction to his new book Psychiana Man: A Mail-Order Prophet, His Followers, and the Power of Belief in Hard Times, is printed here
Only Fools Rush In By Ron McFarland One could suppose that living pretty much in the middle of Moscow, on the corner of busy Ninth and Barnes, Georgia and I might not provide suitable habitat for the likes
In the Fold of Midnight Stars By Miranda R. Carter My grandfather gave us the northern Idaho wilderness. He gave it to us in all its forms: vast populations of pines fleshing out rich, rolling hillsides; ribbons of
An Open-Season Blood Sport By Ron McFarland This late June rain has really brought out the slugs in our Idaho Panhandle yard. Armed with my deadly saltshaker, I nailed 115 last night. Noticing a couple on the sidewalk
Mr. Chips or Signore Machiavelli? By Ron McFarland The first moment I stepped before a class as a sub at my former high school, I knew this was the place for me. I loved it. It felt right.
And Memories to Keep By Sayantani Dasgupta On a Saturday morning, sometime in mid-August 2006, I stepped inside an American café for the very first time. I had won a ten-dollar gift certificate in a drawing held during
Every Autograph Tells a Story By Ron McFarland So, now that I’ve retired and the University of Idaho has “emeritized” me, what am I to do with 142 autographed books ranging in nature from sometimes opaque poetry to
How Idaho Research Changed the World By John Crockett In the 1990s, when I worked in the Energy Division of the Idaho Department of Water Resources, I was fortunate to witness a creative University of Idaho professor’s vision
