Boise Weekly: Mark Blaiser ‘was a dirtbag once’

“The evening was calm and peaceful. Mark Blaiser dipped his paddle through the still water of the Kawishiwi River near the border of Minnesota and Canada. The 25-year-old sat silently in his canoe and watched a moose and her calf splash into the river and swim across. The moment struck Blaiser as profound.

‘That sort of stuff gets into your soul,’ he said. ‘It gets embedded in you.’

Now, at 41, Blaiser is the new executive director of Idaho Rivers United, a nonprofit devoted to protecting, conserving and restoring the state’s rivers, streams and riparian areas.”

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