AVARBON VALLEYIDAHO · OUR SHARED HISTORY
11 ARTICLES · 1913–2021 · NEWEST FIRST

Wildlife & hunting.

Elk, deer, mountain lions, eagles, beaver and sage grouse, hunting seasons, and trapping.

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Routine notices (meeting notices, reminders and classifieds) are left out of this list; find them under Notices.

Observations From the South End

Iwas driving into work the other morning about 7:30 am and I noticed a bird in the road up ahead.

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Arbon rancher calls the end of Idaho's eagle hunt a near crime

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.

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Elk in the haystacks, and a herd cut in half by poachers

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.

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Settlers over the Mink Creek divide want pasture, not elk

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.

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