Idaho Conservation League —
Our Roots are in Idaho

Idaho Conservation League is made up of thousands of Idahoans like you — people who care about Idaho's natural beauty and our clean water and quality of life. Since 1973, Idaho Conservation League members have worked for common-sense solutions for our communities and for Idaho's great outdoors.

Today, the Idaho Conservation League:

• Works with rural homeowners near toxic mega dairies to prevent water and air pollution.
• Safeguards clean air from grass field burning in North Idaho.
• Seeks to end pollution caused by phosphate processing in Southeast Idaho.
• Works with ranchers, outdoors enthusiasts and local business owners to protect the freedom and solitude found in natural places like the Owyhee Canyonlands and Boulder White-Cloud Mountains.
• Helps enhance wildlife and recreation opportunities by restoring and preserving Idaho rivers and forests.

Since 2000, the Idaho Conservation League:

• Led a statewide ballot measure campaign to defeat Proposition 2.
• Joined a diverse coalition to defeat the Sempra coal-fired power plant in Magic Valley.
• Championed the popular Boise Foothills Open Space Levy, which preserved Boise's spectacular natural setting for recreation and other human uses.
• Helped private land owners exercise their property rights and conserve their land by enhancing tax incentives to Idaho conservation easements.
• Worked to make sure all Idahoans' concerns were heard as the state planned to manage wolf populations.

In the 1990s, the Idaho Conservation League:

• Made sure state officials and agencies lived up to the Clean Water Act, guaranteeing Idaho's water remains fresh and clean.
• Worked to improve the Idaho Forest Practices Act and to make sure logging plans on state and national forests balanced timber harvest with clean water, healthy habitat, and recreation.
• Preserved the Owyhee Canyonlands prized wildlife habitat and solitude from plans to expand a bombing range.
• Protected Boise's popular Hulls Gulch from an unnecessary and destructive dam.

In the 1980s, the Idaho Conservation League:

• Conserved Idaho's clean water through the creation of the Idaho Clean Lakes Act and Water Quality Anti-degredation Act.
• Fought for healthy air though the reinstatement of the Idaho Air Quality Bureau.
• Preserved Idaho's wildlife habitat, rivers, and recreation areas by amending the Idaho Surface Mining Act.

In the 1970s the Idaho Conservation League:

• Preserved the Frank Church-River of No Return Wilderness, a 2.3 million-acre wilderness paradise.
• Helped Idaho communities plan for prosperity and growth, while maintaining their unique characters, through the Idaho Local Planning Act.
• Guaranteed Idaho's overtaxed rivers and streams maintain enough water for fishing, boating, and other uses through the Idaho Minimum Stream Flow Act.