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Posted in: blog, Land Use
Tuesday
8th
Nov
2011

Meetings We Attend So You Don’t Have To: Last Night’s Meeting of the Bonner County Property Rights Council

A great deal of our conservation work in North Idaho depends on attending long boring meetings. We know that people have actual lives, and that going to long boring meetings is not something that most people enjoy. Unfortunately, though, that’s often where work gets done, deals get made, and progress can happen. That’s why we go. On the other hand, there are a lot of more »

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Posted in: blog
Saturday
22nd
Oct
2011

Bonner County Property Rights Council Gets Defensive

With increasingly critical attention being paid to Bonner County’s new “Property Rights Council,” the Council is getting defensive. Although paying little attention to actually publishing timely meeting minutes and agendas, the Council has published a new link on its website dedicated to “Media Errors & Omissions.” First, the Property Rights Council takes issue with a widely published AP story noting the hiring of tea party favorite more »

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Posted in: blog
Thursday
6th
Oct
2011

New “Property Rights Council” Brings Messy Ideological Extremism to Bonner County Government

Unelected bureaucrats, creating rules and regulations, running an extreme agenda in a government agency on the taxpayer’s dime. We’re talking the Tea Party’s view of EPA, right?  Nope. We’re talking about the Tea Party itself in Bonner County. Bonner County’s “Property Rights Council” is meeting tonight (a lengthy pdf agenda here) in Sandpoint. It is a new creature of Bonner County government with big plans more »

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Posted in: blog, Water
Monday
9th
May
2011

Washington’s Aquifer Solution

We got word on Thursday that the Washington Department of Ecology was releasing a new study, purporting to prove the feasibility of a scheme to recharge the critical Rathdrum Prairie aquifer with water from Lake Pend Oreille. The aquifer is the sole source of drinking water for about 600,000 people. The report, called the “Spokane Valley-Rathdrum Prairie Aquifer* Optimized Recharge for Summer Flow Augmentation of more »

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