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For a summary of online resources related to Lava Lake Lamb, read this document. It provides links to our family of sites, including the Lava Lake Institute for Science & Conservation, the Lava Lake blog, our facebook & twitter pages, and flickr & picasa albums. You’ll also find links to food bloggers writing about Lava Lake Lamb, articles on our conservation efforts and information on the Design for a Living World exhibit.

Food and Sustainability

Beyond Organic Show
The Beyond Organic radio show is a unique environmental radio and multimedia program, addressing issues of organic food and farming, and social and environmental sustainability. The show covers timely issues and trends, with guests ranging from award-winning author Michael Pollan (Botany of Desire and The Omnivore’s Dilemma) and former Secretary of Agriculture Dan Glickman, to organic farmers and sustainable seafood specialists.

Civil Eats
Civil Eats promotes critical thought about sustainable agriculture and food systems as part of building economically and socially just communities. The site posts articles on a variety of topics related to food politics.

Eat Wild
Provides a wealth of information about grass-fed meat and dairy products, as well as news articles, scientific information and reference materials.

Farm to Table
Farm to Table informs and strengthens the sustainable and local foods community by providing a collaborative journalistic forum for the presentation of a unified voice for small farmers, restaurateurs, consumers, and everyone in between, with an emphasis on the importance of grassroots initiative as a means to bring about large-scale change in the American food industry.

Gary Paul Nabhan
Dr. Gary Nabhan is a MacArthur Fellow, cofounder of Native Seeds/SEARCH and author of numerous books and articles on ethnobotany, nutrition and plant conservation. Gary’s work is currently focused on creating sustainable community food systems and protecting working landscapes.

Organic Nation
Organic Nation is an exploration of the American sustainable food landscape, focusing on the people, places and products that are shaping a new green economy and lifestyle. From farmers to urban gardeners, and from teachers to restaurant owners, the site’s editors travel the country to document how sustainable food systems are being created.

Slow Food USA
Slow Food USA is a non-profit educational organization dedicated to supporting and celebrating the food traditions of North America. Local chapters, or “convivia,” advocate sustainability and bio-diversity through educational events and public outreach that promote the appreciation and consumption of seasonal and local foods and the support of those who produce them.

Sustainable Food Systems
Sustainable Foods Systems, a unique consulting and technical assistance service, partners with healthcare facilities, public and private schools, universities, business dining facilities and community organizations to incorporate sustainability practices that are healthier for customers, local economies and the planet into their food programs. The president, John Turenne, partnered Lava Lake Lamb with the local Wood River Valley hospital to provide healthy and sustainable food for patients.

Wild Farm Alliance
The Wild Farm Alliance was established by a national group of wildlands proponents and ecological farming advocates who share a concern for the land and its wild and human inhabitants. Its mission is to promote a healthy, viable agriculture that helps protect and restore wild Nature.

Conservation

The Conservation Fund
The Conservation Fund is dedicated to advancing America’s land and water legacy. With their partners, they conserve land, train leaders and invest in conservation in the U.S.

Defenders of Wildlife
Defenders of Wildlife is dedicated to the protection of all native wild animals and plants in their natural communities. Their programs encourage protection of entire ecosystems and interconnected habitats while protecting predators that serve as indicator species for ecosystem health.

Freedom to Roam
Freedom to Roam is a non-profit initiative that brings together people, organizations and businesses to enhance and protect wildlife corridors and landscape connectivity in North America.

Idaho Conservation League
The Idaho Conservation League has been working since 1973 to protect Idaho’s cherished heritage of water, wildlands and wildlife.

The Nature Conservancy
The Nature Conservancy is an international conservation organization whose mission is the protection of the Earth’s biological diversity. They work cooperatively with a wide range of partners, from private landowners (such as Lava Lake) to government agencies. Click on this site to learn about their work in Idaho (or in your own home state).

Sustainable Northwest
Sustainable Northwest brings people, ideas, and innovation together so that nature, local economies, and rural communities can thrive. They distinguish themselves in the natural resource sector through an ability to bring together multiple, often opposing sides of an issue, and to craft and promote solutions through a collaborative process.

Wildlife Conservation Society
The Wildlife Conservation Society saves wildlife and wild places worldwide, through science, global conservation, education and the management of the world’s largest system of urban wildlife parks. The Lava Lake Institute and WCS partnered to track ungulate movement through the Pioneer Mountain landscape in the Pronghorn Migration Study.

Wood River Land Trust
Wood River Land Trust is a non-profit conservation organization that helps landowners and communities protect and restore the wildlife habitat, clean water, farmland and scenic vistas that make the Wood River Valley and its surrounding areas unforgettable. Their efforts keep land in private hands, help families protect the lands they love, and preserve traditional land uses such as family farming and ranching.

Government Agencies

BLM
The Bureau of Land Management, which administers 256 million acres of public lands, manages livestock grazing on about 160 million acres of those lands, as guided by Federal law. In managing livestock grazing on public rangelands, the BLM’s overall objective is to ensure the long-term health and productivity of these lands and to create multiple environmental benefits that result from healthy watersheds.

IDFG
The Idaho Department of Fish & Game preserves, protects and manages wildlife in the state.

IDL
The Idaho Department of Lands manages over two million acres of granted land that provide funding for the state’s public schools and institutions.

NPS
The National Park Service manages parks, like the Craters of the Moon National Monument.

Craters of the Moon
Craters of the Moon National Monument and Preserve is located close to Lava Lake Ranch. The rugged landscape is composed of lava fields and volcanic cones, and is host to a wide array of plants and animals.

NRCS
The Natural Resources Conservation Service works with landowners through conservation planning and assistance designed to benefit the soil, water, air, plants, and animals that result in productive lands and healthy ecosystems.

USFS
The U.S. Forest Service manages forests, such as the Sawtooth National Forest, located close to Lava Lake grazing allotments.

Culture and History

Basque Museum of Boise
The Basque Museum & Cultural Center provides a look into the heritage of the Basque communities of Idaho and surrounding areas.

Cenarrusa Foundation for Basque Culture
Founded by Pete and Freda Cenarrusa, the Cenarrusa Foundation for Basque Culture promotes the culture and history of the Basques by providing resources for performances, presentations and programs and to organizations throughout Idaho and Oregon.

Trailing of the Sheep
This website provides information on the Wood River Valley’s annual celebration of the region’s history of raising sheep and the diverse cultures who have been a part of it.

Community

Behind the Menu
Behind the Menu is the only media group focused exclusively on the evolving culinary scene of Idaho’s Treasure Valley. Through a combination of new media and social media, Behind the Menu engages in conversations about the locally owned culinary community from pitchfork to plate.

Good
GOOD is a collaboration of individuals, businesses, and nonprofits pushing the world forward.

Grist
Environmental news and commentary, including the most current happenings in agriculture.

Headwaters News
This site provides a daily snapshot of news and opinion in the Rocky Mountain region of North America, giving the changing mountain West a tool to understand itself and a platform for the exchange of ideas.

High Country News
Through in-depth reporting, High Country News covers the American West’s public lands, water, natural resources, grazing, wilderness, wildlife, logging, politics, communities, growth and other issues now changing the face of the West. From the Northern Rockies to the desert Southwest, from the Great Plains to the West Coast, High Country News’ coverage spans 11 Western states and is the leading source for regional environmental news, analysis and commentary, making it an essential resource for those who care about the West.

Idaho Mountain Express
The Wood River Valley’s local newspaper.

Idaho Preferred
Idaho Preferred is a program of the Idaho State Department of Agriculture dedicated to identifying and promoting Idaho food and agriculture products.

Meatpaper
Meatpaper is a print magazine of art and ideas about meat. It prefers metaphors over marinating tips, and is your journal of meat culture.

New West
New West is a next-generation media company dedicated to the culture, economy, politics, environment and lifestyle of the Rocky Mountain West.

NW Food News
Award winning public radio producer Guy Hand takes a monthly audio tour of Idaho’s surprising diversity of local foods and the people who produce it.

O, The Oprah Magazine
O, The Oprah Magazine is a catalyst that helps confident, intelligent, affluent women live their best life, through articles on everything from health and food, to style

Saveur
Saveur Magazine has articles on the best of food and drink. It’s site shares recipes from its archive, as well as findings from the web.

Sunset Magazine
Go to Sunset Magazine’s website and enter “lamb” in the recipe search box for delicious, easy lamb recipes your family will love.