Grazing on the open range and the national forest, allotments, range disputes, predators, and rustling.
Routine notices (meeting notices, reminders and classifieds) are left out of this list; find them under Notices.
In August 2017 a human-caused range fire jumped the Arbon Valley Highway, burned about 53,000 acres at the north end of the valley and sent the people of Pauline from their homes, though no house was lost.
The massive wildfire reported on the Fort Hall Indian Reservation on Wednesday afternoon is now listed as 10 percent contained.
The Power County Prosecutor recently received a telephone call from Barry Williams wherein Mr.
Having reviewed the Deputy Attorney General's advisory letter of May 31, 2012, and having heard comments from Arbon residents on June 25, 2012, perhaps some additional…
y closest neighbors are a large herd of Black Angus cows. Because they are about all I have to look at through my kitchen window I have become fascinated at some of…
Iwas driving into work the other morning about 7:30 am and I noticed a bird in the road up ahead.
In 1989 Idaho's governor praised Arbon Valley's farmers and deer hunters for settling their quarrel, and over the next decade the valley's ranchers found themselves in the West's wider argument over mountain lions.
From the Mosho fire of 1988 to the Power Line fire of 2016, range fires kept burning in and around Arbon Valley, and the farmers kept turning out to fight them.
In June 1980 the Journal profiled Sherm Swim, the Arbon Valley cattleman who took the 1979 old-timers' roping in Pocatello, and the next March it pictured him and his son Kirk with a calf mauled by coyotes.
In May 1978 a Bannock Creek rancher and a young Shoshone-Bannock stockman from the same creek each told a federal judge he might have to sell cattle if the forest grazing case went against his side.
In the late summer of 1975 swarms of Mormon crickets were crawling through Arbon Valley's fields, two years after a grasshopper campaign and sixteen years before the insects came down from the hills again.
In March 1972 the Fort Hall tribes impounded more than 300 cattle on Bannock Creek range that they said belonged to the Arbon rancher Sod Williams, and vowed to keep them until the damage was paid for.
Closing his Arimo barber shop in 1971, Sim Hatch recalled the years he and his brother Abe ran 130 horses in Bannock Valley and on Dairy Creek, until the slump after the First World War broke them both.
In January 1963 Merle Meyers, his sons Jerry and Jay, and Kenneth Pevoe ended the career of a big female mountain lion blamed for lost sheep near Bannock Peak.
At a Senate hearing in Twin Falls in 1960, Arbon Valley cattleman Lloyd Brower told how a quarrel with sheepmen moved his herd onto the national forest, and objected to a 40 percent cut there.
A lightning fire near Crystal in July 1958 was thought stopped, came back on the wind and burned 3,000 acres, one of a string of range fires the papers reported around Arbon Valley from 1948 to 1978.
In September 1957 Indian and white stockmen spent six days riding through snow and then dust to gather about 1,200 cattle off the reservation range on Bannock Creek, and Merle Meyers, raised at Crystal, rode along and wrote it up.
In 1954 a pickup taken at Lava Hot Springs and then a missing Pocatello man's body turned up in Arbon Valley, and by fall twenty ranchers had organized to patrol the valley through the winter.
In late 1938 Pocatello pilot Ralph Knapp scattered crested wheatgrass from a low-flying plane over 8,000 acres of rough range between Arbon and Rockland, on land Carl Rudeen leased, and range scientists watched to see whether it would take.
In 1937 a Pocatello man, objecting to an elk hunt, recalled Indians digging camas at the head of Midnight Creek about 1904 and the sheep-worn meadow he found later.
When Idaho's new game warden called off the state's drive against the golden eagle in the spring of 1937, Roy Lindley of Arbon, a longtime hunter, wrote to say the birds were the worst enemy the state's mountain sheep and goats had.
When Arbon Valley farmers complained that elk from the Pocatello game preserve were raiding their haystacks, two committees went to count the herd, found it shrinking rather than swelling, and advised against a hunt both times.
In June 1899 men from Surveyor Sonnenkalb's camp cornered a silver-tip blamed for hundreds of dead sheep in an aspen thicket at the head of Rattlesnake Creek and killed it with a borrowed gun and a six-shooter.
In 1928 J. R. Munn recalled Tom Sparks's cattle on the Arbon and Crystal range, the Fleming sheep that crowded them, and the sheepman found shot near Sunbeam creek, a killing other papers place in 1894.
Elk calves the state turned loose near Crystal grew into a herd of hundreds that wrecked fences and haystacks, until a Crystal rancher complained in 1927 and a cowboy was hired the next winter to keep them off the farms.
In the spring of 1920 Arbon's farmers incorporated a range association to keep the migrating sheep bands off their canyons and hills, and by midsummer a deputy was riding the ranges and sheepmen were standing trial at Pauline.
In July 1918 the Power County commissioners heard a petition from Arbon Valley residents for a herd district and, with no one standing against it, created the district on July 27.
An old settler's 1915 memory of the winter that froze the Oregon herds opens three decades of glimpses of Bannock Valley as range for cattle and sheep, before wheat took it over.
In June 1913 homesteaders south of the Mink Creek divide fought sheep permits on the Pocatello forest reserve, and when someone proposed turning it into an elk refuge, T. B. Smith wrote to the paper that the settlers needed summer grass, not game.