Dirt-y Secrets: Pre-fall routines for healthy plants and animals
By Ranel Hanson Reader Columnist The light has changed and the nights have cooled. It is a glorious time of transition. Summer is winding down but we still have lots of warm days to...
Category: Opinion
A case for human compassion
By Nishelle Gonzalez Reader Contributor I often get curious when someone has different political ideals. I honestly don’t like talking about politics in the frame of “what side are you on?” or the “I’m-right-and-you’re-wrong”...
One week at a time
By Ben Olson Reader Staff Where in the name of Edward R. Murrow has eight years gone? That’s how long it’s been since we brought the Reader back from the dead in January 2015....
The Lumberjill: The f-bomb is only acceptable when talking about the president, and other language arts lessons from North Idaho
By Jen Jackson Quintano Reader Columnist My little one was nervous for the first day of school. The entire drive found her curled in the fetal position, reciting the mantra, I don’t want to...
Emily Articulated: Tipping
By Emily Erickson Reader Columnist I spent an entire decade of my life in a tip-based industry, waiting tables, tending bar and tour-guiding at everything from college pubs to fine dining restaurants to après-ski...
Remembering a ‘true servant of mankind and plants’
By Pete Hicks Reader Contributor Jeffrey Rich, known to many of us as Sprouts, blessed our community for more than 40 years. My family only got the chance to know him about nine years...
On memories
By Lyndsie Kiebert-Carey Reader Staff If I want to remember when something happened, I scroll through the photos on my phone. I last cleaned out the folder in late 2019, and have since taken...
Winter motorized rec. proposed alternative: An environmental apocalypse
By Paul Sieracki By Reader Contributor The North Zone Winter Recreation proposal — developed by a “collaboration” of pro-motorized recreation groups — will severely impact endangered, candidate and sensitive species including the grizzly bear,...
Facts on local growth
By Jeremy Grimm Reader Contributor Ben, I appreciated the reflection provided in your opinion piece “Embrace the shoulder season… while we still can,” published on Sept. 1, 2022. You captured many of the observations...
A Few Thoughts … On artistic types in the wilderness
By Sandy Compton Reader Columnist Each year, a backpacking trip into a nearby wilderness is undertaken by certain artistic types (ATs), most often plein air painters. ATs follow “guide” Bearly-Seen Svensson (not his real...
