Our oceans are dying
By Finn Helgenberg Reader Contributor In North Idaho, we are feeling the ill effects of the cuts President Donald Trump is making. As Trump downsizes Forest Service personnel, he is also downsizing the protection...
Category: Pets & Animals
Mad about Science: Strange birds
By Brenden Bobby Reader Columnist Birds are fairly odd creatures, but among the odd are the oddest — strange and wacky evolutions that perfectly suit their ecological niche while appearing alien and unusual to...
Casting for a cause
By Ben Olson Reader Staff Sometimes, inspiration comes from unexpected places. When Jess Westbrook had the idea to use fly fishing as a tool to support children in foster care, it came from how...
City of Sandpoint: Do not disturb the baby moose
By Reader Staff The Sandpoint Police Department and Idaho Fish and Game are aware of the baby moose that has been observed in the area without its mother. As spring approaches, baby moose —...
Register now for local Master Naturalist intro classes
By Pat Meyers Reader Contributor The Pend Oreille Chapter of the Idaho Master Naturalists is a non-profit volunteer organization concerned with nature-related conservation events in the Idaho panhandle. Our chapter is headquartered at the...
Cancer sticks, racism and hostage situations
By Soncirey Mitchell Reader Staff At our weekly Reader editorial meeting, Publisher Ben Olson asked — as he often does — if we had any “fun” stories to give our readers a break. I,...
Fish and Game looking for person who shot and killed bald eagle near Sandpoint
By Reader Staff Idaho Fish and Game is looking for information after a bald eagle was shot and killed near Sandpoint. According to the agency, the eagle is believed to have been killed between...
Mad about Science: Therizinosaurus
By Brenden Bobby Reader Columnist Dinosaurs were weird. Conditions on Earth over several hundreds of millions of years created some unusual evolutionary niches that nature was eager to fill. The Therizinosaurus was one of...
Mad about Science: Kiwi
By Brenden Bobby Reader Columnist We’re ringing in the new year with an ambitious experiment! In a Mad About Science first, we’re going to be learning about two completely different subjects under a single...
Even ‘good dogs’ die
By Tim Henney Reader Staff My son has buried my Best Friend Tippy in the backyard among the raspberry bushes. She and I were roughly the same age: in our early ’90s (in Tippy’s...
