‘This is your sled hill’
By Reader Staff
Shortly before the final band took the stage at the inaugural SledFest fundraiser on Aug. 26, Kaniksu Land Trust Executive Director Katie Egland Cox made an important …
By Reader Staff
Shortly before the final band took the stage at the inaugural SledFest fundraiser on Aug. 26, Kaniksu Land Trust Executive Director Katie Egland Cox made an important …
By Ben Olson
Reader Staff
Kaniksu Land Trust temporarily closed several trails at Pine Street Woods on Aug. 15 after mountain bikers reported seeing a dead deer near the Crooked …
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 Reader Staff
When William Haberman, managing member of Valiant Idaho, LLC, which owns The Idaho Club, approached Kaniksu Land Trust about placing a parcel of the company’s land in …
By Lyndsie Kiebert
Reader Staff
When the infamous March 2020 windstorm ripped through North Idaho, Kaniksu Land Trust’s community forest, Pine Street Woods, suffered the effects of Mother Nature’s wrath. …
By Regan Plumb
Reader Contributor
It seems implausible enough that a contemporary outdoor recreation center could be pulled together in a matter of months with little advance notice during Sandpoint’s …
By Regan Plumb
Reader Contributor
If you are a Sandpoint area dog walker, trail runner, woods walker, mountain biker or all of the above, you are likely acquainted with Sherwood …
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 Cameron Rasmusson
Reader Staff
It took the better part of a decade, but Pine Street Woods is officially in the hands of the community.
Kaniksu Land Trust announced last …
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