Updates on the state of Lake Pend Oreille
By Soncirey Mitchell Reader Staff The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers began the spring refill of Lake Pend Oreille on April 1, with the goal of raising the water from the average winter levels...
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Navigating water quality in Lake Pend Oreille
By Karissa Huntsman Reader Contributor As snow is falling on the mountains and hills around Sandpoint, many are looking ahead to the upcoming winter season. Here at the Idaho Conservation League, we are still...
The butcher’s binky
By Lyndsie Kiebert-Carey Reader Contributor A couple of days into this year’s rifle hunting season, my husband Alex sent me a photo. The text notification made my heart race. He’d been gone for a...
New Camp Bay hearing set for Oct. 25
By Susan Drumheller Reader Contributor It’s been out of the public eye for months, but the battle over public access to Lake Pend Oreille at Camp Bay is not over. The latest court hearing...
Emily Articulated: Scotchmans flyover
By Emily Erickson Reader Columnist I have always believed there is something magical on the knife’s edge between fear and fun, anxiety and elation. Moments spent suspended between the safety of what we know and...
DEQ seeking comment on Black Rock cleanup plan
By Zach Hagadone Reader Staff It’s been a long time coming, but the effort to connect Ponderay with its Lake Pend Oreille waterfront is teeing up to enter the first stages of coming to...
Summertime update for Legislative District 1A
By Rep. Mark Sauter, R-Sandpoint Reader Contributor Greetings. I sincerely hope everyone is enjoying our summer. With several weeks to go before the summer temps and water levels begin to drop, it’s time for...
One year’s seeds, seven years’ weeds
By Soncirey Mitchell Reader Staff Lake Pend Oreille’s noxious weed problem has worsened over the past six years, as blooms of invasive Butomus umbellatus, or flowering rush, have joined Eurasian milfoil to clog area...
Lake Pend Oreille, 1952: When trophy fish trumped national defense
By Nancy Foster Renk Reader Contributor Dr. C.C. Wendle had uncovered a story that was explosive — literally. An unidentified civilian employee at the Navy’s research facility in Bayview told Wendle about plans to...
BNSF officially opens two-way rail traffic over Lake Pend Oreille bridges
By Zach Hagadone Reader Staff After more than a decade of planning and construction since 2019, BNSF Railway announced Aug. 7 that it had officially opened two-way traffic on the new and refurbished train...
