Mad about Science: Huckleberries
By Brenden Bobby Reader Staff Idaho’s state fruit is a thing of natural wonder. Steeped in a sense of legendary mysticism, you hear locals talking about hucks (but never sharing their picking patches) and...
Category: Pets & Animals
Together in the graveyard
By Soncirey Mitchell Reader Staff There’s a patch of shade behind my house hidden under the drooping boughs of ocean spray shrubs. The only markers now separating it from the surrounding forest are the...
Dirt-y secrets: A time to celebrate life
By Ranel Hanson Reader Columnist “Green was the silence, wet was the light, the month of June trembled like a butterfly.” — Pablo Neruda This is...
Mad about Science: Animal babies
By Brenden Bobby Reader Columnist Human beings spend a lot of time caring for their young. As a species, we officially consider our children to become adults at 18 years of age, when they...
Mad about Science: Swainson’s thrush
By Brenden Bobby Reader Staff June in Idaho means different things to different people; for some it’s a great time to drop the boat in the water, crack a cold beer on the lakeside...
The city of Dover becomes a Monarch City
By Delia Trenbath Reader Contributor Congratulations to the city of Dover for becoming a “Monarch City” — the second community in the state of Idaho to proudly carry that title. The Dover City Council...
Sandpoint council OKs off-leash dogs — with a permit — at City Beach to ward off geese
By Zach Hagadone Reader Staff After years of discussion, the city of Sandpoint is going to allow off-leash dogs at City Beach with the express purpose of harassing — and hopefully frightening off —...
Mad about Science: The radioactive ‘wild boar paradox’
By Zach Hagadone Reader Staff By now, pretty much everyone should be at least familiar with the disaster that befell the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant on April 26, 1986, when its Reactor No. 4...
Building butterfly waystations
By Ben Olson Reader Staff By the time Idaho had adopted the monarch butterfly as its state insect in 1992, the migratory insects were already starting to grow scarce in the northern part of...
Nonprofit heals with horses
By Soncirey Mitchell Reader Staff Local Laura Nass grew up with a deep love of horses, which followed her through her training as a social worker and her time working for the Idaho Children’s...
