Lynne Stone, co-founder of the Boulder-White Clouds Council and a fierce advocate for Idaho’s wildlands and wolves, died in 2024 in Oregon after a short illness. She had moved from Idaho to be near her family.

A longtime Wood River Valley resident, Stone was among the earliest champions of protecting the Boulder-White Clouds as wilderness.

Author of "Adventures in Idaho’s Sawtooth Country," a 1990 hiking and mountain biking guide published by The Mountaineers, Stone’s advocacy for wilderness was rewarded by the 2015 passage of the Boulder-White Clouds Wilderness legislation.

Pat Ford, a former ICL executive director, credits Stone with securing protections for the remote Herd Creek and Jerry Peak area, calling it “Lynne Stone’s Wilderness.”

Other initiatives she worked on included thre

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