My Tentative Chapters...  and in an order that will likely change, since the chapters completed or semi-completed are near the front. Actually, all of these chapters still need work.  Some of these chapters will possibly morph and some will disappear. 


This website is just for internal use... for a select few... it will disappear one day, once the chapters are finished. But now it's helping to keep things together and allows me to easily move things around... and to let people offer suggestions and criticisms... which I do encourage. But I'm not sharing it with everyone and hope you don't share it either... please.  


I'm still looking for a title... although My Own Private Outdoor Idaho is a decent suggestion. I also like An Outdoor Idaho State of Mind. None of these chapters are finished. I continue to change them as I come up with new memories. 

 

 

 

Where's My Hat?   (more about me than I like, but it might work with more tweaks)

 

Holding it Together (or Keeping it Together)   (fighting to keep the show afloat, and other things)

 

The Glory Years  (favorite shows of mine and others in production)

 

The Mule Speaks    (Musings by Terry Lee, the extraordinary Volunteer) 

 

All in the Family or The Race Horses in the Basement or Behind the Curtain or ?... (Professionals who use different sides of their brain)

 

Geology Determines Destiny  (what the geology of Idaho has meant to the state and to OI)

 

Taking on Big Brother (our fight with the Forest Service over cameras in the Woods)

 

A Wise and Humble Man  (a profile of Bud Moore, USFS. A template for other profiles perhaps)

 

He Always Made Me Smile (a profile of Morley Nelson. Also work in "The Vertical Environment" with Lynn Redgrave. 

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Happy Trails to You (the importance of Trails to Idaho. Without them,  much of Idaho would be diminished. The fight in the White Clouds over mountain bikes, Margaret Fuller, a climb up Ryan Peak in the Hemingway-Boulder wilderness.)  

 

The Elvis Version: It's Now or Never (The long, tortuous journey of how a mountain in the White Cloud Mountains went from a proposed open-pit mine at the base of Castle Peak... to official Wilderness status 30 years later.)

 

The Muse and an Angel Named Trixie...  (something about writing in general and scripts in particular)

 

Our Go-To People... (the ones who have held the record for most appearances in a show... right now this chapter consists of poet Bill Studebaker, Professor John Freemuth, Prankster and writer Cort Conley.)

 

As Real as it Gets.. (the only show that generated an unfavorable petition... "Wolves in Idaho" )

 

The Fish That Got Away...(Mike Simpson's big plan and our show "Salmon Reckoning")

 

Best Historical Corner of the State... (Silver Valley gets the nod. We produced a program entitled "Silver Valley Rising." We also produced an hour-long show called "Assassination: The Trial of the Century." Clarence Darrow on one side and James Hawley and William Borah on the other)

 

What exactly is Outdoor Idaho?... (maybe how it's evolved while staying true to some things; evolved because new people would move in and provide a different dimension or way to view things; how teachers used the show, students who had to watch it; people who went on shoots; mainly other people's perceptions.)

 

Obsessions We Have Known (and I think there were a few... Wilderness... Lewis&Clark ... Salmon ... maybe we put Rafting here (or maybe there's enough 'rafting' to give it a 'chapter'...shows on old folks...  Llamas...the recurring one is Public Lands, etc. We concentrate on several that don't already have a chapter devoted to them.)

 

Is Collaboration a Lost Art? (have we lost the desire to collaborate? Some examples of where it worked and why, like the Owyhee and White Cloud wildernesses and Roadless area, etc.)

 

Up, Up, and Away (thinking of using the words to our hour-long pledge special, "Idaho, An Aerial Tapestry" as  a chapter. Not sure yet about this one.)

 

You Actually Wore That? (this is just an idea after seeing a slide show that my talented niece Rachel put together the other day of all the clothes I wore for the Standups. I'm assuming Hats will make an appearance also. Believe me, this is not my idea, and I'm guessing it will only work if Rachel works on it. But the slide show made me laugh.)

 

The Importance of Place. (the wrap-up with some general thoughts from me)