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Health officials warn of harmful bacteria in North Idaho’s Fernan Lake, north end of Hayden Lake

  • Valentin Termite

Officials from the Panhandle Health District, alongside the Idaho Department of Health and Welfare and the Idaho Department of Environmental Quality, issued public health advisories Aug. 6 warning of harmful cyanobacteria bloom in Fernan Lake and the upper end of Hayden Lake. Cyanobacteria, referred to as harmful algae bloom and normally a natural part of […]

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Alliance for the Wild Rockies, residents score win in fight for North Idaho’s old growth, grizzlies

  • Mike Garrity

Seven long years ago the Alliance for the Wild Rockies, with the support of local residents, took the U.S. Forest Service to federal court to halt the Hanna Flats logging, road-building, and burning project on the Idaho Panhandle National Forests in northern Idaho.  Through a long and winding legal saga the good news — for grizzly […]