Idaho F&G employees told to avoid environmental activist

A memo sent yesterday to Idaho Fish and Game Department employees urged them to avoid phone conversations and other contact with an environmentalist who is accused of harassing staffers and assaulting a top state official. According to a report in the Twin Falls Times-News, Jon Marvel, who heads the anti-grazing group Western Watersheds Project, has a history of bad behavior around government officials. BLM staffers received similar instructions after an incident in 2000.