wood river land trust newsletter fall 2007
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Land
on
The cottonwood orest trail at Draper Wood River Preserve
rtirti
ailey residets ad Wood River
Lad Trust are celebratig the com-
pletio of a log-aticipated lad trade thatexpaded the Cedar Bed Preserve from 4.5
to 84.5 acres. Wood River Lad Trust first
idetified the area for protectio i 1997
as part of a effort to create a protectedgreeway alog the Big Wood River iHailey. The greeway would protect
healthy river fuctio ad wildlife habitat,
lesse impacts of floodig, ad provide a
place to ejoy hikig, swimmig, fishig,
ad bird watchig year-roud.The first step towards protectig this
riverfrot area came with a doatio from
Erie Gore ad Cheri Ashworth i 2001.
As part of the ew Cedar Bed subdivisio,
Gore ad Ashworth doated 2.3 acres, ad
the Cedar Bed Preserve was bor. A
opportuity to purchase 2.2 adjacet acres
at a bargai rate arose i 2003, leadig
to a successful fudraisig campaig thatexpaded the Preserve to 4.5 acres.
I mid-July, after more tha two yearsof discussio ad egotiatio, Wood River
Lad Trust received 120 acres of lad pre-
viously owed by the Idaho Departmetof Lads icludig a mile of Big Wood
River frotage i Hailey i exchage for a
4.6-acre lot i Idia Creek. 80 of these
acres are adjacet to the Cedar Bed
Preserve, makig the ew preserve aexpasive 84.5 acres i the ceter of tow.
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Protecting the heart
of the valley...now anfor the future.
Hailey Preserve Grows by 80 Acresand Gets New Name
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Bill BurnhamBoard Member
the late 80s ad early 90s, Billad his wife, Kaye, took may sum-
mer trips to wester resort areas hopig
to fid the perfect secod home tow.
Although they loved to ski, they wat-
ed to experiece the moutais, rivers,streams, forests, ad wildlife durig the
glorious summer moths. Their deci-
sio to settle i the Wood River Valley
tured out to be a easy oethe areasbeauty, its traquility, the friedly adivolved people, ad the recreatioal
opportuities made it the clear choice.
They bought a home ad moved here
part-time i 1995.
Less tha two years later Bill missedthe area so much whe at home i
Atlata, Georgia, that he ad Kaye
WHo We ARe
agreed he would retire early ad theywhould move full-time to their home i
Elkhor.
I 1999 Bill became a member of
the Board of Directors of the Su Valley
Elkhor Associatio. Bill explais thatthe group ows hudreds of acres of
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Kaye and Bill Burnham
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ope space ad other evirometallysesitive lad. I became more ad more
cocered, he says, about ways to
esure that sesitive areas throughout
the Valley were protected ad preservedfor geeratios to come . . . After dis-
cussig this with my fried ad former-
Board Presidet of the Lad Trust, Joh
Flattery, it became obvious that the best
way for me to pursue these goals wasto get ivolved with Wood River Lad
Trust.
Bill has bee a member of Wood
River Lad Trusts Board of Directors
sice 2005. This is a very active adivolved Board, says Bill. The mem-
bers are passioate about Wood River
Lad Trusts work, ad Im excited to be
helpig the orgaizatio meet its goals.
For the ninthconsecutive year,Wood River LandTrust is fortunateto announce a2:1 year-end
challenge grant.
CHALLEnGE GRAnT 2007
Anonymous donors and our Board of Directors have generousy pedged$170,000. To receive this gift, e must raise $340,000 by December 31, 2007.This means that every doar you donate before the end of the year i bematched by an additiona $.50.
The Year-End Chaenge provides an exceent opportunity to make your gift goeven further in the protection of the Vaeys and, ater, and idife habitat.
A donations are tax-deductibe. Pease hep us reach our goa today!
Visit the BuidingMateria Thrift Storeat its ne ocation
- 3930 S. Woodside -beginning
November 1, 2007.
(208) 788-0014
buildingmaterialthriftstore.org
Year-End Challenge Goal.............$340,000
Amount Raised as of 8/30........$78,995
Amount Needed toMeet Challenge........................$266,005
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Big Thanks to Dedicated
Summer Internse sed out a big thak you to our hardworkig
stewardship iters, Joh McVay ad Jackso
Parker. Joh, who recetly completed his masters degree
from SUnY Evirometal Sciece ad Forestry College
i Syracuse, created a digital archive of our coservatioagreemet documets. Jackso, a studet at Eckerd College
i Florida, orgaized our aual coservatio agreemet
ispectios. Jackso ad Joh both spet log hours work-
ig i the fieldmaitaiig trails, fightig oxious weeds,
ad esurig our lads are well cared for.We wish the best to Jackso ad Joh as they pursue
their careers i coservatio!
John and Jackson in ront o Wood River Land Trusts histori
headquarters
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Jeff Adams
Joy ad Eric AlleKe Aderso
Tom BergiRiley BermaCarol Blackbur
Florece ad Tom BlachardGay Boecker
Bobbie BoyerElizabeth Bree
Carol BrowMary Jae Burs
Susa CadyLy CampioMark Caywood
Kyle ColePatrice Cole
Steve CrosserArt Dahl
Jey Emory DavidsoRick DavisLida ad Bob Edwards
Carl EvesoDaralee ad Joh Fiell
Polly FrostmaPeter Gray
Dick HayIree ad Michael HealySarah Hedrick
THAnk you. . .
Jeff HobartPatricia Hull
Aie KaiserJea Kavaagh
Alliso KeedyHampto Kig
Chris KochBob LawMeribeth Lomki
Paddy McIlvoyErica Miller
Gerry MorrisoLyea newcomerPatsy nickum
Carme ad Ed northeEsther Ochsma
nicola PottsKathy Richmod
Jaso Roth
Becky SmithBreda Smith
Bob StevesBrett Steveso
Reed StokesReggie Swidle
Jeifer TuohyLiza WilsoElizabeth Zellers
Thanks to All Our Volunteers-
We Couldnt Do It Without You!
Ken Anderson and MJ Burns join an ambitious group o
volunteers or a day o work and un at Boxcar Bend
foR HeLpIng us AcHIeve ouR goALs
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Kathy Richmond displays a
delicious morel
connecTIngMeandering for Mallow
his years wildflower hike took place o Jue
5th at the 17-acre Lake Creek Preserve adwas led oce agai by botaist Carol Blackbur.
The sky looked threateig, but the weather stayed
fie ad cool, makig the hikig up, up, up the hill
ot quite so challegig. We saw may ative
wildflowers Globe Mallow, Scarlet Gilia, HotRock Pestemo, Arrow-leaved Balsamroot, ad
Yarrow were just a few. There was also a member
of the Lily Family that Carol had ot see therebefore, ad her ethusiasm was ifectious.
We hope youll joi us ext year for a fie eve-ig hike to see beautiful flowers ad paoramic
views, ejoy covivial compay, ad lear about
our ative flora. Or, visit the Preserve o your ow
ad let us kow what flowers you fid!
espite the cold drizzle at
Draper Wood River Preserve
(formerly Cedar Bed Preserve),
this years Mushroom Walk crowd
was large ad ethusiastic. KathyRichmod, Simba Sprigs coserva-
tio agreemet door ad member
of the Souther Idaho Mycological
Associatio, led the walk for the
secod year ad shared her kowl-edge about mushrooms.
Kathy shared some poiters
ad the set the huters to search
throughout the preserve. Most of
the participats huted for morels,but may mushroom species, both
edible ad poisoous, were foud
ad idetified.
Mushroom Madness
Learning about wildowers at Lake Creek Preserve
Caddis Capers:
A River Successs the fishig seaso heated up,local kids headed out to the
River. Silver Creek Outfitters ad
Wood River Lad Trust teamed upto create Caddis Capers, a fly-fish-
ig ad coservatio class for kids.
About te local youth joied us for
a fu morig o the Big Wood
River.The kids explored the River
with a stream health scaveger
hut, leared about etomology,ad had a castig cliic i Hule
Meadows Pod as well as a picicluch. It was a excitig morig
o the Big Wood ad everyoe was
all smiles by the ed of the day. A
special thaks to Terry Rig ad
his staff at Silver Creek Outfittersas well as our great voluteers who
helped make the evet a success.
Hoping or fsh at Hulen
Meadows Pond
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To THe LAnd
O Wood River Lad Trusts wish list sice1997, this trade preserves oe of the most
popular atural areas i our commuity.
The areas cottowood forest is a crucial
part of the river system, ad the trail co-
ectig Cedar Bed ad Lios Park is usedyear-roud for walkig, joggig, ad sow-
shoeig, bird watchig, ad simply relaxigo the baks. I additio to improvig
water quality ad decreasig flood risks, the
cottowood forest also provides importatwildlife habitat. Moose, elk, deer, river
otter, ad a variety of birds are commoly
see i the Preserve.
A ong-anticipated and trade expands the Cedar Bend Preserve from4.5 to 84.5 acres
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The trade was a success due i part to
the geerosity of a umber of local residets.
Foremost are Priscilla ad Raey Draper,
who made a leadership gift that eabledWood River Lad Trust to purchase the lot
used to trade for the State of Idaho lad. We
also thak Bruce Smith, ower of Alpie
Eterprises, a local surveyig ad mappig
compay, who sold his 4.6-acre lot i IdiaCreek to Wood River Lad Trust at a bar-
gai rate for use as the trade lot.
The Idaho Departmet of Lads ows
lad for the purpose of geeratig reveue
for the states schools. Because of its char-ter, they are ot able to make discouted
trades or bargai sales of lad. Therefore,
fidig lad at a comparable value for trade
was essetial to the trasactios success.
Smiths bargai sale (offerig a sellig pricebelow market rate) offer made it possible for
Wood River Lad Trust to raise moey from
private sources to purchase the lot it the
traded to the State. Matt Luck of
Widermere Realty also geerously
waived his real estate commissio.
Thaks to the support of the
Drapers, Bruce Smith, ad a umberof others, 80 acres alog the river
are forever protected ad ope to
the commuity. The Cedar Bed
Preserve was reamed the
Draper Wood River Preserve at a
private dedicatio ceremoy o
July 25th i hoor of the Draper
Familys commitmet to protect-ig the Big Wood River ad its
cottowood forests ad wildlife
habitat.
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connecTIng
ach year as summer slows ad
autum creeps i, we aouce
our aual Heart of the Valley co-
test. The theme of this years cotest,
our 4th, is Sustaiig the Heart of ourValley. There are coutless reasos we
love livig i the Wood River Valley.
Some reasosfabulous skiig, hikig,
bikig, ad fishigare almost ui-
versally amed. Other tows, though,such as Aspe, Jackso, Lake Tahoe,
ad Whistler have these ameities, but
we do ot log to call them home.
This years cotest asks you to
explore the fudametal elemets thatset the Wood River Valley apart from
other moutai resort areasthe thigs
that if take away would rob us of our
uique idetity. It could be local produce
that keeps us healthy, people ad places
that ispire us, wildlife ad uforget-table vistas right out the back door, or
busiesses ad evets that add to the
commuitys vitality . . . coutless people,
places, ad thigs come together to cul-
tivate ad urture the bouty that makesthe Wood River Valley home.
Thats this years challege . . . show
us where, withi what, or with whom
this essece is foud by sedig us your
photographs ad short writigs (essays,poems, ad memoirs). Photographs
will be displayed ad readigs of t
short writigs will be held through
out the witer. Submissio guide
lies are available o our website,www.woodriverladtrust.org. You
ca also stop by our office or co-
tact Heather Kimmel at 788-3947
more iformatio.
This years cotest is geerously
sposored by:
Tell Us Why You Love Living in the Valley!
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Board o Directors
Clark Gerhardt, President
Ed Cutter, Vice President
Joan Swift, Treasurer
Robin Garwood, Secretary
Jerry Bashaw
William Burnham
John Flattery
Trent Jones
Heather King
Patricia Klahr
Jack Kueneman
Bill Lehman
Liz Mitchell
John Fell Stevenson
Steve Strandberg
Tom Swift
Chris Thompson
Barbara Thrasher
Doris Tunney
Liz Warrick
WRLT StaScott Boettger
Executive Director
Morgan Buckert
Membership Assistant
Melanie Dahl
Executive Assistant
Kate Giese
Director of Conservation
Kathryn Goldman
Project Coordinator
Diane Kahm
Development Assistant
Heather KimmelProgram & Membership
Coordinator
Robyn WatsonMajor Gifts Officer
Nathan WelchPlanning Coordinator
Advisory Committee
David Anderson
Peter Becker
Ranney Draper
Rebekah Helzel
Dave Parrish
Larry Schoen
John Seiller
Bruce Tidwell
This newsletteris published by:
Wood River Land Trus
119 East Bullion Street
Hailey, Idaho 83333
208-788-3947 (telephone
208-788-5991 (fax)
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To THe LAnd
he we first came to Idaho
17 years ago we were struck
by the awesome beauty of this state
ad especially the strikig moutaisad forests aroud ad just orth
of Ketchum. The Boulders, White
Clouds, ad Sawtooth Moutais
became a source of ispiratio tous. While carig for sick ad dyigpatiets with cacer ad blood
disorders i Califoria was deeply
rewardig ad challegig, it was
also immesely stressful. We decided
to look for property i Idaho. O askiig trip i 1989, we discovered a
chuk of relatively udisturbed lad
with a small home ad decided to
purchase Simba Sprigs, to be used
as a getaway from our freetic life iCaliforia.
A few years later, after mayvacatios from Califoria, we decided
we could o loger bear to stay away
from our ew home i Idaho. Wepicked up lock, stock, ad barrel ad
moved to Simba Sprigs. Suddely,
we were surrouded by peace, beauty,
ad cotetmet. We became aware
of the magic of wilderess ad wildlifesurroudig us i our ow backyard.
Sice that time we have become avid
preservatioists of wild ature ad
wild life. Simba Sprigs is home to
hudreds of species of plats ad wild-life ad hosts lots of migrat mega-
faua icludig black bears, moutai
lios, wolves, martes, lyx, deer, elk,
ad eve a occasioal proghor
ad moutai goat. We have couted80 species of birds, icludig bald
ad golde eagles, orther goshawk,
great hored owls, orther pygmy
owls, as well as may sogbirds.
Our forest of mature ad old growthDouglas Fir ad aspe ad our two
Why We Protected Simba SpringsBy Kathy and Dave Richmond of Clayton, Idaho
small creeks ad may sprigs pro-
vided susteace to us ad our visi-
tors, both huma ad aimal.
It soo became apparet to usthat we would eed to do some-
thig to esure that our 635 acres of
heave, surrouded o all 4 sides by
the SnRA ad BLM lad, would be
protected after we died. We had readabout coservatio agreemets ad
ivestigated a couple of orgaiza-
tios who would help us pla for the
future of Simba Sprigs. It wast
util we iterviewed the woderfulstaff at Wood River Lad Trust, how-
ever, that we kew we had foud our
solutio.
Scott Boettger ad Kate Giese
ad the rest of the staff listeed toall of our cocers ad spet may
hours workig to assure our agree-
met was exactly what we eeded.
O April 30, 2007 our Simba Sprigs
Coservatio Easemet was fializedad recorded. We ow ca rest assured
that this piece of Gods creatio will
remai i as pristie a state as possible
i perpetuity, thaks to Wood River
Lad Trusts commitmet.
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Satooth Nationa Recreation Area
to Staneyto Chais
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SimbaSprings
An autumn vista at the ney protected635-acre Simba Springs
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Acres Permanently Protected
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Acres Permanently Protected
With Your Support: 6,421fALL 2007
n THIs Issue:
Hailey Preserve Grows
y 80 Acres and Gets
New Name
..Page 1
Tell Us Why You Love
iving in the Valley
..Page 6
Why We Protected
imba Springs
..Page 7
Golden Day by Kim Clayton,
Honorable Mention
Photography Division,