Most of us measure air quality by: Can I see the mountains? Can I breathe the air without choking? Is the air so bad I can’t smell the roses? But there are a number of insidious pollutants affecting us that escape detection by the senses, and perhaps, our concern. Because the source, the automobile, is so imbedded in our culture, we tend to ignore the more »

Camp Easton Forever, Inc. (CEF) filed an appeal last week with the Idaho Supreme Court in regards to their lawsuit, Camp Easton Forever, Inc. v. Inland Northwest Council Case CV2011-7873, with the goal of blocking Camp Easton from being sold by the Inland Northwest Boy Scout Council out of Spokane. Earlier this summer, the District Court entered a Judgment of Dismissal regarding the lawsuit followed more »

Historically, 2.5 million salmon and steelhead returned to the Snake River Basin and its largest tributaries, the Clearwater and Salmon rivers of Idaho. With place names like Salmon, Redfish Lake and Salmon Falls Creek salmon are an indelible part of Idaho’s traditions and ecology. But now, after decades of over-fishing, habitat destruction and, more recently, construction of dams on the lower Snake and lower Columbia more »

Tomorrow, September 12th at 11:00AM the Idaho Water Resource Board (IWRB) will be holding a public hearing on the State Water Plan revisions in the Community Room at the Coeur d’Alene Library. Comments on the proposed revisions will be accepted through September 21st. The State Water Plan is a guidance document for the use and management of Idaho’s water resources. This is only the sixth more »