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EPA slaps ITD with new fine, bringing payments to $1.7 mln
- Penalties and payments in a botched 2001-2002 northern Idaho highway project that sent tons of sediment into Lake Coeur d'Alene's Mica Bay have now topped at least $1.7 million after the state Transportation Department was forced pay another $325,000 fine for violations of the federal Clean Water Act.
9th Circuit: Judges shouldn't act as scientists
- An 11-judge panel of the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals has ruled it's improper for federal judges to act as scientists when weighing in on disputed U.S. Forest Service timber projects.
Wildfire center: More severe fires expected in CA
- Federal fire managers predict an increase in severe wildfire activity in northern California through October due to unusually hot, dry weather and scant rain, but say areas like Idaho that were charred by fires last year may be in for a reprieve.
Spud farmer returns to roots to help Afghans
- To help poor Afghani villagers make money on potatoes instead of opium poppies, Idaho farmer Pat Rowe used a little old technology: root cellars.
- To help poor Afghani villagers make money on potatoes instead of opium poppies, Idaho farmer Pat Rowe used a little old technology: root cellars.
Endangered sockeye beat projections in Columbia
- Sockeye salmon swimming up the Columbia River in Washington and Oregon in higher-than-expected numbers are spawning hope the fish will also make a mass return to Idaho.
Idaho could require canoe and kayak registration
- Idaho could become the first western state in four years to require registration for nonmotorized boaters such as canoes and kayaks.
ID spud farmer returns to roots to help Afghans
- To help poor Afghani villagers make money on potatoes instead of opium poppies, Idaho farmer Pat Rowe borrowed a root cellar design common across his home state's famous potato country in the 1930s and 1940s.