For nearly 30 years I have been fishing on Silver Creek and bringing people from all over the world to the creek in the hope of helping them land a world-famous Silver Creek trout. Every time I visit the creek I am reminded how lucky we are to have Silver Creek in our backyard.
It has always been my assumption and hope, as I drive in the main entrance to the Silver Creek Preserve and head to the visitor center, that the lands around the preserve will be protected and will be more or less the same for future generations to enjoy. I recently learned this may not be the case.
Would you like to see homes lined up along the Silver Creek Preserve? There is one last large parcel of land adjacent to the preserve that is unrestricted—most of the properties next to the preserve are under conservation easement and will remain more or less the same in perpetuity. Not the property across from the visitor center, however. It could be houses. Or a lodge. Or condos.
Or it could be protected like so many properties around the preserve. It's our choice.
We have an opportunity to protect the place we all love today. The Nature Conservancy is working to purchase an easement on the 320 acres adjacent to the Silver Creek Preserve. With the current economic situation, they are asking that we all contribute a little bit to help save this amazing place. We all enjoy it, a lot of us rely on it, and many of us wouldn't want to live in this valley without it—let's all protect it. I encourage everyone to rally around this project and contribute today.
Greg Loomis
Hailey
