The Friends of Scotchman Peaks Wilderness busy season is about to start. Seventy percent of the stewardship activities FSPW engages in falls between the middle of April and the end of September. The 2017 schedule is filling up, with ten days of trail work, a whitebark pine planting expedition on …
Just before Christmas, 2015, years of work and thousands of hours of individual effort by people from all walks of life in northwest Montana came to fruition when the Kootenai Forest stakeholders made a landmark agreement about land use on the Kootenai National Forest. The spectrum of participants was stunning: …
BONNER COUNTY DAILY BEE | UPDATED 8 YEARS, 3 MONTHS AGO
I’m somewhat of an outlander. I grew up on the Clark Fork, not the Kootenai, went to school at Heron and moved to Idaho for high school. But I’ve come back to “The Emerald Empire” many times since, the last time — 25 years ago — to stay.