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In this episode, we dug into soil by talking to Shawn Nield, Idaho’s state soil scientist, about Idaho’s soil quality.

The Collaborative Forest Landscape Restoration Program is a bipartisan, 2009 policy that has funded restoration projects across the country, including a number in our region. A new report finds that the vast majority have included efforts to preserve mature and old growth forests. Some environmental groups say it could serve as inspiration for a 2022 Biden administration executive order to mitigate threats to such forests, which support critical ecological processes.

University of Idaho Engineering students are helping Bolivian farmers irrigate their crops in the dry season.

Junior high kids in Boise threw 2,000 pounds of marshmallows at each other as part of a program to reduce depression and thoughts of suicide among students.

Psychologists Cameron Staley and Jennifer Miesch discuss why we experience symptoms of depression, how to cope, and some available treatments.

Idaho should adopt an approach now being used in 42 other states, writes guest columnist Jim Jones.

More than 66 million acres in the U.S. are at high risk for wildfire, according to the Forest Service

“Come back to work.” That’s the message from the U.S. Forest Service’s new chief, Tom Schultz, to recently-retired workers.

Idaho Matters sits down to look at the history of Flag Day and why courageous people have stood up to defend the ideals it represents.

Every year rabid bats are found in Idaho. Last year, 27 bats with rabies were found in the Gem State. And while bats are very beneficial little mammals and shouldn’t be made into the bad guy, it is a good idea to protect yourself and your pets from coming into contact with a possibly rabid bat.