Shoshone-Bannock Fish & Wildlife crews built 31 imitation beaver dams on West Fork Bannock Creek and let two beavers go there in the fall of 2019, and by 2020 the creek was carrying more trout.
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.
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.
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.
In 1933 Idaho drew 150 permits for old bull elk on the Pocatello game preserve, near the heads of Crystal and Midnight creeks, after years of farmers' complaints about elk in their fields.
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.
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 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.