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Posted in: blog, Hayden Lake, Water
Friday
12th
Feb
2010

Conference Exposes Water Quality Issues Common to Local Lakes

This posting courtesy of KEA staffer Julie Vanmiddlesworth:  The 9th annual Lakes Conference held last Saturday at Spokane Community College revealed that many of Idaho and Washington’s lakes are plagued by common problems. Invasive species and high nutrient levels are degrading the waters of many of our beloved lakes.  Lake Pend Oreille Waterkeeper advocated for a wider approach to Milfoil control in Lake Pend Oreille, more »

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Posted in: blog, Land Use
Thursday
11th
Feb
2010

Commissioners’ conscious avoidance of comp plan decision

The deliberations have been a long, slow, and epic failure of leadership.

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Posted in: blog
Wednesday
3rd
Feb
2010

What We’re Reading

It’s been busy here in the KEA offices — too busy to post as regularly as we’d like – but here are some articles of interest: What does the Obama budget mean for the environment? NRDC experts break it down  – NRDC Switchboard Woody biomass electricity generator to replace paper mill?  — New West Wolf population stops growing in Northern Rockies. — NRDC Switchboard Our friends at more »

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Posted in: blog, Community, KEA
Thursday
28th
Jan
2010

Community Roots Cookbook: Recipes for odd vegetables

Thanks to the donations in the community, our Community Roots program delivered more than 9000 pounds of fresh nutritious food each week this past summer to food assistance facilities, shelters and transitional homes. We’re proud of the effort, but we realized that maybe we should also be proud of our recipients too where our donated produce is turned into meals. What’s even more amazing, we deliver more »

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Posted in: blog
Saturday
16th
Jan
2010

What We’re Reading — Save Idaho Parks Edition

Governor Otter has proposed eliminating Idaho’s Department of Parks and Recreation.  It’s a proposal that is causing, to say the least, a great deal of controversy.  I suspect you’ll be hearing a lot more about this — from us and from others.  Here are the basics: The provisions of the deed creating Harriman Park created the Idaho Department of Parks. Get rid of the Department, more »

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Posted in: blog, Water
Wednesday
13th
Jan
2010

New EPA Administrator for Our Region

We’ve been waiting quite some time for an announcement, and got the news today: EPA has announced the Obama Administration’s appointment of Dennis J. McLerran to be Regional Administrator for the region that includes Idaho.  (Region 10 is comprised of Alaska, Idaho, Oregon, Washington and Pacific Northwest Indian Country. Its headquarters is in Seattle. ) Because Idaho has declined to administer many of its own environmental programs, EPA more »

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Posted in: blog, Forests
Saturday
9th
Jan
2010

What We’re Reading — Forest Collaboration Edition

On forest issues in our region, “collaboration” is the latest buzzword. Can long-standing issues be resolved by local or regional stakeholder discussions? Or is it more complicated than that? Or much more complicated? Some readings: The complexities of collaboration by the Forest Service — High Country News and a response from a newish blog A New Century of Forest Planning. The comments to the blog postings are more »

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Posted in: blog, Land Use
Tuesday
5th
Jan
2010

Mandatory Training for Land Use Decision Makers?

My friends (all 1000 of them) back in Maryland posted this item recently, and wouldn’t it be nice here in Idaho!  According to a relatively new Maryland law, all key land use decision makers are now required to take an on-line training course in planning and zoning.  We skimmed the course materials (here – a large pdf) and were impressed with the breadth and clarity and organization of more »

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Posted in: blog, Land Use
Tuesday
5th
Jan
2010

Update: Variance denied, because there’s no such thing

As we wrote last month, we were somewhat taken aback by a developer’s request for a variance under the County’s site disturbance ordinance because, well, the ordinance doesn’t have provision for variances.  It turns out that the County hearing examiner agreed and recommended that the request for variance be denied as a matter of law. In a well-reasoned opinion, hearing examiner Rebecca Zanetti recommended that more »

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Posted in: blog, Wildlife
Monday
4th
Jan
2010

Idaho Wolf Tags: Buy Early and Buy Often

We were tracking our Twitter feed today, when an interesting item from the Idaho Department of Fish and Game popped up regarding the extended wolf hunting season in the state.  Last week, the Department issued a “reminder” press release noting that hunters who had purchased a wolf tag for the 2009 wolf hunting season would need to purchase another one for 2010 to hunt in more »

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