With the new year, we thought we’d take a little time to reflect on some blog posts of the past. These posts were originally a part of an earlier version of a blog from the 1990s and early 2000s, known as Digital Memories. We thought the launch of the Idaho...
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Opening the Door to a New Year
![Morrill Hall, University of Idaho. From Administration entryway #2. [66-12]](https://objects.lib.uidaho.edu/campus/thumbs/campus02586_th.jpg)
Who’s ready to close the door on 2020? We are, that’s for sure! We hope these images of doors and entranceways on the University of Idaho campus help you to symbolically prepare for the exciting new potential of welcoming in a new year as we prepare to walk out into...
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Nez Perce-Clearwater National Forests
Wilderness Wednesday
Welcome to another week of Wilderness Wednesday! Today, we’re talking about the Nez Perce-Clearwater National Forests.
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Lava flows you can see from space?!
Wilderness Wednesday
Craters of the Moon National Monument is one of four national parks in Idaho and consists of over 53,000 acres of “volcanic formations and lava flows on the northern rim of the Snake River Plain in southcentral Idaho.” While the volcanic formations only compose 53,000 acres, the national park is...
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Creatures Great and Small
For this holiday edition of What’s Bugging You, we’re focusing on some of the larger critters and creatures sharing space in our forests. Some of the damage porcupines, bears and cows cause to trees can be found on this page of a Forest Research Photo Album found in our Potlatch...
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Douglas Fir Tussock Moths
What's Bugging You
Today’s post will focus on the Douglas fir tussock moth, a defoliating moth.
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Boise National Forest
Wilderness Wednesday
The Boise National Forest is about 2.6 million acres and is one of the largest national forests in the country.1
“History of the Boise National Forest, 1905-1976,” Boise State Historical Society, Boise, 1983 ↩
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There are three kinds of people...
Funny Friday
According to this illustration in a collection of research materials about WWII, there are three kinds of people…
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winter travel in Idaho
All Girl Band
Historical Student Clubs
![All-girl band [2]](https://objects.lib.uidaho.edu/harvester/thumbs/171326251648_1_th.jpg)
The first appearance of an all-girl band took place in 1943 at a send-off rally for the U of I men in the Enlisted Reserve Corps. Directed by Music Professor Edmund J. Marty, their goal was to amount to ‘99 Gals and a Guy.’ By 1945 an All-Girl Singing Orchestra...
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