Idaho
Southeast Region Winter Feeding Advisory Committee Meeting scheduled for Dec. 10
Members of the Southeast Region Winter Feeding Advisory Committee (WFAC) will meet on Dec. 10 at 6 p.m. to assist Idaho Fish and Game with the assessment of winter conditions and observations related to big game animals (movements, depredations, activity on roadways, body conditions, mortalities) in the Southeast Region.
The committee is made up of five local citizens from around the region whose input helps to inform Fish and Game’s winter-feeding decisions.
Committee members meet several times each winter as they monitor local weather, wildlife distribution, and landscape conditions. Committee members also serve as sounding boards for citizens in their communities and communicate with Fish and Game staff on a regular basis.
Members of the public are invited to attend the meeting in person or call in, but please note that meeting rules do not allow for the public to provide comment or ask questions during the meeting. The public is welcome to provide comments to the WFAC members or to the Idaho Fish and Game anytime before a meeting convenes.
Follow this link to learn more about winter feeding in Idaho.
WFAC Meeting Details and Agenda for Dec. 10, 2024
6:00 p.m.
Idaho Fish and Game Southeast Region Office, 1345 Barton Road, Pocatello, ID
Call-in Number: 208-236-1280
Agenda:
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Welcome (Jennifer Jackson, IDFG)
Please note that any members of the public who have called in are welcome to listen to the discussions and official business of the WFAC. However, members of the public are not allowed to provide input or ask questions anytime during this meeting per rules guiding the official business of the WFAC. That being said, members of the public can ask questions or provide comments for consideration via phone calls, emails, or texts to both Fish and Game staff and committee members outside a WFAC meeting.
As a friendly reminder, WFAC members and IDFG staff are asked to please identify themselves before speaking.
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David Priestley, Chair of the WFAC
Welcome. Call for any new agenda items?
Announcement of this year’s committee members and the areas represented by these individuals.
- Dan Garren, IDFG Regional Supervisor, to share purpose of the WFAC committee as well as the guidelines and process for making decisions regarding emergency winter feeding.
- IDFG staff to share data and information about deer/elk going in to this winter: winter conditions in general as compared to last year at this time, body conditions of animals, depredation issues, efforts to manage any conflicts so far this fall and winter, etc.
- Regional Round-up (reports, observations, issues, concerns, comments, etc.) from each Committee Member and participating staff.
- Other items? Concerns? Questions?
- Discussion of possible action items.
- Schedule next meeting.
- Adjourn.
PAYETTE — A Payette mom’s bond was revoked Tuesday after she was charged with suffocating her twin children earlier this month and is believed to pose a danger to the life of her newborn child.
The case, which has drawn national headlines, concerns Andrea Renee Shaw, a 23-year-old Payette mother who in May 2025 said her 18-month-old fraternal twins died the same day, after receiving routine childhood vaccinations. In January, Shaw joined as a plaintiff in a federal lawsuit filed by Children’s Health Defense, an anti-vaccine organization founded by Robert F. Kennedy Jr., with several other plaintiffs claiming vaccine injury or death.
Kennedy, who now serves as secretary of Health and Human Services, is no longer part of the group after taking on the cabinet position, as was reported by the Associated Press.
In Idaho, the twins’ deaths prompted a 14-month investigation by the Payette County Sheriff’s Department. On June 29, the investigation yielded a grand jury indictment of Shaw on two counts of first-degree murder by suffocation. If convicted, Shaw can be punished by up to life in prison or the death penalty, and the court would have the ability to order the penalties be served consecutively, or back to back.
Tuesday’s arraignment at the Payette County Courthouse was primarily attended by Shaw’s relatives and members of the media. Payette County Judge Kiley Stuchlik, who serves Idaho’s Third Judicial District, presided.
A key consideration for Stuchlik on Tuesday was a request from Joseph Filicetti, the legal counsel for Shaw, to have her bond reduced from $2 million to $100,000. Filicetti said this would allow for Shaw to care for a newborn girl, who, according to court documents, was born by caesarean section on June 25, four days prior to Shaw’s grand jury indictment.
State prosecutors objected to the motion for bond reduction, noting at hand was a potential death penalty case and asserting, unlike her husband, Shaw’s story repeatedly changed during questioning. Prosecuting Attorney Mike Duke said releasing Shaw would ultimately put the newborn’s safety at risk.
“That child is the most at risk. We do not think she should be allowed to be anywhere near any children, let alone her own children,” Duke said.
Stuchlik decided to revoke bond entirely, stating Shaw posed a “risk of safety” to the newborn child that was not known to Stuchlik or prosecutors when the $2 million bond was initially set.
Also for consideration Tuesday was a request to have grand jury transcripts of witness testimony provided to prosecutors and defense counsel to prepare their respective cases.
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