Photos courtesy of Idaho Forest Group This past September, nearly 2,000 acres of North Idaho forest along Prichard Creek, a tributary of the Coeur d’Alene River between the town of Prichard and Thompson Pass, was protected from future development thanks to an Idaho Forest Group (IFG) donation of a conservation agreement to Kaniksu Land Trust. […]
Cover photo courtesy of Jon Jonckers For over three decades, the Inland Northwest Land Conservancy has been working with our community to safeguard the special places that make the Inland Northwest area so unique. When we first started, our goal was simple: protect the land that defines the character of our region. Since then, we’ve
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Cover photo courtesy Shallan Knowles In February 2024, a break-in at the Inland Northwest Land Conservancy’s (INLC) gear barn resulted in theft and damage totaling $30,000 in tools and equipment crucial for their conservation work at Waikiki Springs Nature Preserve. This loss disrupted their stewardship activities and community events, impacting both the organization and local
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Spokane-based Cedar Grove Wildlife Guiding offers safety courses, wildlife tours, workplace trainings, and classroom events.
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Water conservation needs to be a way of life so there’s enough water in our rivers and streams for fish, wildlife, and summertime recreation.
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Private land owner conservation champions and non-profit organizations work together to protect former working forests and ranchlands from development.
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Fall is a great season for exploring Conservation Futures properties. A Zoom meeting for public comments on the 8 prospective new properties is Sept. 9.
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The movement of wildlife is crucial to their survival. Salmon travel from the ocean to the river to spawn, field mice scurry along hedgerows to avoid predation, and caribou traverse thousands of miles to search for wintering grounds. Wildlife corridors are the routes, relatively unhindered by human activity, that wild animals travel to meet many of their primary needs: food, shelter, and reproduction. Nature has a way of spreading animals across the
Every other year I spend one week in Olympia reviewing grant applications as a member of the statewide Non-highway and Off-road Vehicle Activities (NOVA) program through the Washington Recreation and Conservation Office (RCO). It’s an intense week of recreation grant presentations on a strict 20-minute schedule all day for five days. Our team reviews and
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Rivers are complex systems, and conservation efforts can be as complex as river systems themselves. Collaborative efforts involving multiple stakeholders have the best chance to be successful. Here are two regional conservation efforts where multiple stakeholders are working together to improve our waterways. Invasive Predators Invasive northern pike have been making inroads into the Columbia
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