Idaho Conservation League celebrates 50 years
By Brad Smith
Reader Contributor
The Idaho Conservation League was founded in 1973 to be the voice for conservation in the Idaho Legislature. Conservation activists and local groups from around …
By Brad Smith
Reader Contributor
The Idaho Conservation League was founded in 1973 to be the voice for conservation in the Idaho Legislature. Conservation activists and local groups from around …
By Soncirey Mitchell
Reader Staff
As fires rage in Idaho’s forests, the smoke hangs so thick sometimes in Sandpoint that its famous views take on a muted, ghostly pallor. Summer …
By Zach Hagadone
Special to the Reader
This article is Part 1 of the conclusion to a series of articles supported by a grant from the Idaho Humanities Council and …
By Zach Hagadone
Reader Staff
The so-called “Timber Wars” are generally described as having occurred in the 1980s and ’90s. It was a period of conflict waged in both the …
By Ed Ohlweiler
Reader Contributor
Just who was this luminary comet of a man? This figure whose heart failed at the young age of 38 and yet at different times …
By Lyndsie Kiebert-Carey
Reader Staff
As the community grapples with unprecedented population growth and a general sense of change around town, it appears that one piece of Old Sandpoint won’t …
By Zach Hagadone
Special to the Reader
This story winds through the earliest days of economic development in North Idaho taking in the booms and busts of the first half …
By Lyndsie Kiebert-Carey
Reader Staff
In plain terms, Hubbard Farms covers 1,040 acres in the Kootenai Valley, growing wheat, canola, barley and alfalfa on a productive patchwork between the Selkirk …
By Regan Plumb
Reader Contributor
Trails may be most immediately associated with providing opportunities for fresh air and exercise, but there are more subtle factors at play just beneath the …
By Bea Speakman
Reader Contributor
If you are pleased with the recent capture and banding of the Canada geese and plan to kill any that return to City Beach, then …
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