My Tentative Chapters...  and in an order that will change, since the chapters nearly completed are near the top. Actually, all of these chapters are still in a state of flux. My goal right now is to get something on paper for each chapter and then spend time editing and re-writing and refining. Some of these chapters may disappear of more likely morph.

My goal is to have photos for each chapter. Color would be nice. Photos would mostly be from others.

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.  

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."

 

Finding My Way... Home in Idaho City... Where's Your Hat?   (these are more autobiographical than the others)

The Elvis Version -it's now or never...  the long and winding road to White Clouds wilderness, using Outdoor Idaho interviews over several decades

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

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

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. Some duplication with The Elvis Version. Will check.  

 

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

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

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" 

 

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

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

The Glory Years ... favorite shows of mine and others in production 

 

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

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)

Old Man River... we did a lot of rafting... maybe we put desert rivers in here, as well as Salmon, Selway, etc.

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.) (It's possible this one will disappear or be subsumed into various other chapters)

An Agency Much Maligned... (We did a few shows on the Forest Service, plus we put together a fairly lengthy piece with the former Chief of the Forest Service and other F.S. leaders, but only used part of it in the 2022 "The Next Chapter." I told them if they were open and honest, and were willing to talk about mistakes, it would just be them talking and not the other side.

 

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.) It's possible this chapter will disappear and/or be tossed into other chapters

 

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, and a strong push for public lands)