Idaho Governor Butch Otter
Idaho Governor Butch Otter is taking on the U.S. Forest Service over its decision to forbid the state’s educational broadcasting network from sending a camera person into a central Idaho wilderness area.
Idaho Public Television, licensed by the federal government as a non-commercial television station, wanted to film a student group doing conservation work inside the Frank Church River of No Return Wilderness Area for its “Outdoor Idaho” production.
It’s filmed similar shows in the wilderness in the past.
But Frank Guzman, supervisor of the Salmon-Challis National Forest, said in a letter this month that sort of filming is commercial, and as such is not allowed in the wilderness.
On Wednesday, Otter urged Guzman to reconsider, calling the claim that IPTV is a commercial entity is absurd and defies common sense. (AP)
