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Stevenautique, a suggestion here. After you have settled in a while, you might go to the Sportsman's Warehouse on Fairview Ave. in Meridian, and pick up copies of the Idaho F&G regulations for Big Game, Upland and Migratory game, and fishing. You'll be able to read them at will and discover how much hunting you can do if you wish. You can also find them at Cabela's on Franklin Ave., Boise.

While you're there, buy a copy of the Idaho Atlas and Gazetteer. It is a complete set of topo maps of the entire state.

Also, there is a marvelous television program on the local PBS station called Outdoor Idaho. Reruns play at different times in the afternoon, but always it's on Thursday night. It is an in depth, extremely well produced and filmed exploratory presentation of the entire state with the many varied kinds of topography, Idaho's history, etc. It's very interesting and informative.

Have a safe trip.

L.W.

thanks for all of the great posts i am looking forward to getting to know the area better.

i would love to shoot a wolf something that i have wanted to do for awhile chuckar sounds like fun as well.

Sorry to see the infection has spread to Boise. At least they're not nekkid (yet) like the fools in Portland.

I can remember when Boise started building the freeway along the south side of town back in the 60's. It's been under continuous construction ever since. The latest expansion has been going on for a couple of years now.
However...the good city fathers have done a lot to move traffic east and west but nothing to move it north and south. During rush hour, getting north & south can be a nightmare. Every road is packed with cars backed up at every stoplight...and there are lots of stoplights. Eagle Rd used to be a quiet country road but now it's a parking lot with cars stalled at every light twice a day. Broadway, Curtis, and others aren't any better.

Most of those shows can be seen on Youtube..

https://www.google.com/search?sourc...tube#q=Outdoor+Idaho+youtube&tbm=vid

Born and raised in Boise..Sure has changed..Last time I was there it took longer to get from State street to Overland than it did from State street to Horseshoe bend,26 miles away.Can't stand the traffic..

I do have to say that I prefer Boise to Spokane for a larger city but Missoula tops them both..I live right in the middle of all three in central Idaho.About 200 miles to each.

As Boise grew so did the croud going to the McCall area on the weekends..Bumper to bumper madness on Hiway 55 friday through sunday.McCall used to be a nice logging town,now it's a tourist trap!

To the opp..You should enjoy Boise and the surrounding area's.Lot's of fishing/hunting and camping to do with a good drive.

They've been talking for decades about building a decent highway from Boise north to Moscow. They're still talking. Hwy 55 is pretty much out because of the cost of widening it through the mountain canyons. Hwy 95 is the best option but the talk goes on. Over the years they have shortened the time to drive it by a good 2 hrs by fixing a few notorious hills, though. They did that by reworking Horseshoe Bend, Whitebird, and Lewiston hills. When I was in college, Whitebird was the worst, then Lewiston. Both were 30 mph roads, now they're 70 mph if you have the power to climb them at that speed.

Not to rain on the parade at all, but about 10 years ago I was working for a contractor from Minnesota who was doing work in ID.

Their company had been in Idaho all summer and it was now September. A co-worker of mine, also a native Idaho guy, asked the contractor one day about how much he must be enjoying Idaho.

The contractor, who was one not to mince words, quickly said he couldn't wait to get the hell out of ID. We were having a hot, dry, fire ridden summer that year and he said it was green at home, not smokey, and rarely got over 85 degrees. He also mentioned, that in his small home town he could be on the lake in minutes. In his opinion, he saw nothing in ID that made him want to changes zip codes. To each his own.

Idaho in the summer, particularly Boise, can be hot with several days over 100 degrees. Being in a broad valley we can get some smokey days from fires in summer and occasionally get inversions in the winter that keep pollution trapped low to the ground. Conversely winter isn't too bad at all, we sometimes get a few days near or below zero but a typical winter day in Boise drops into the teens at night and is in the high 20's or more commonly mid-30's during the day. The mountains north of here get a lot colder. Also we don't get piles and piles of snow - it might snow and drop a few inches but it's generally gone in a couple of days. Again, north of here is a different story.

It's not as green as any place east of the Mississippi, particularly not around Boise which is high desert and rolling sagebrush hills. A little greening of the foothills in the spring and then everything turns brown. I always tell folks Boise is in the least interesting part of the state but it's close to all kinds of interesting places just a fairly short drive away.

I've been in Idaho 25 years now - the first 13 in the little town of Fruitland which I really miss - and watched Boise grow from a big town to a small city to a medium sized city with most of the problems of urban sprawl inherent thereto. Farmland has become subdivisions and shopping malls, traffic is "bad" but compared to Denver or Portland or Ft. Lauderdale where I grew up our traffic is nothing. Even as a small city it's still free of crime - there's meth here like everywhere and some burglaries but personal violent crime is very unusual. The worst street violence one will see is drunk college kids getting into fights in the bars along Main street. You can still walk downtown late at night or go to your car in a parking garage with almost no worry of a mugging or personal assault - a far cry from Ft. Lauderdale even back in the 80's where you'd keep your eyes swiveling for bad guys in a shopping center parking lot in broad daylight. I'll be overtly racist and say that's because we have a very small black population. Most young black men around here are BSU students and you don't see many of them around, although again, I'm seeing a few more than in times past. We do have some Somali refugees in my part of town but they're just trying to make a better living from where they were, no urban yutes there.

If I had my druthers I'd much rather be back in Fruitland or any of a hundred small towns in Idaho. But I had three jobs go out from under me in Fruitland - moved away or just went out of business - and that's the problem with small towns vs. cities. I had to move to a city just to find work. If one can find work in a small town, great, but I've been gainfully employed at the same place for the last 12 years here.

This place ain't Utopia, every place has trade-offs, but as cities go Boise beats all of the other ones I've ever lived in or seen.



Mostly the big claim to fame here compared to any state East of the Montana/Colorado/Wyoming/NM line is acres and acres and acres and acres and acres and acres of public land to roam around on without asking permission.

All that summer rain makes it green. Idaho is weeks of sunny weather and low humidity. MN might only rarely get over 85 but I'd sure prefer some warm summer days to the damp bitter cold MN has in the winter.

Never been to MN in my life... Entire 48 years have been here in ID. Just saying that some people coming here that are used to less dry conditions might view and Idahoans dream of perfection completely differently.