The children just want to breathe
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 vacation, every kid’s dream,...
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Conservation: From the Timber Wars to collaboration
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 sponsored by Friends of...
Conservation: From the Timber Wars to collaboration
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 woods and the courtroom...
The extraordinary and brief life of Bob Marshall
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 was a forester, philosopher,...
Kaniksu Land Trust secures agreement for Pine St. Sledding Hill
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 have to: the Pine...
Conservation: From the Timber Wars to collaboration
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 of the 20th century....
For bears, forebears and the future
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 and Purcell mountains. But, as...
Trail Dispatches: Trails for Conservation
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 surface. Conservation is just...
A Christian conservative take on City Beach goose removal
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 you agree with the...
Beware the collaboration trap
By George Wuerthner Reader Contributor Many of the environmental/conservation groups in the West are participants in various collaboratives. Groups participating in collaboratives include the Western Environmental Law Council, Northwest Conservation, Greater Yellowstone Coalition, Montana...
