Friends of the Clearwater

The Wild Clearwater program is a multifaceted and integrated conservation education and participation effort. Its two main parts “are Outreach/Education and Ecosystém Defense. This past we participated and/or sponsored severai different events and educationa “opportunties” We sponsored a conference on grizzly bears, citizen science fieid excursions, a joint évent on the Snake River “ihree summer hikes, sponsored a fiilm about the impacts of suction dredge mining, hosted a winter outing with another organization v “we leared about winter ecology, and spoke to several ciasses from grade school to the univrsity level. i of these Wiid Ciearwater “Program events are free to the public. These, in aggregate, served around 3000 people this year. The Wild Clearwaler program aiso “provides newsletiers and information about current pubiic fand, water and wildiife Issues in the Clearwater Basin to a list of 900 in “paper form as weil as an email update iist of around 2000 and another 200 followers on social media.The Ecosystem Defense “component of the Wild Clearwater program of Friends of the Ciearwater is heavily invoived in the input processes on publiciand “proposals. Last year we commented on about 61 separate projects. In certain circumstances, we exercise our right to judicial review "W also prepared a detailed report on roadiess areas in idaho and Montana nd distributed it widely, inicuidng fo agency and other “officiais. The media aiso reported on the findings of the repori. T