Today's Idaho Land Board meeting turned into a packed, nearly five-hour marathon that ran through the lunch hour and 'til nearly 2 in the afternoon. "They didn't know that it was going to go that long," noted board secretary Susan Terry; the meeting had been scheduled to run from 9 a.m. to noon. By the end, an exhausted Land Board had passed three motions unanimously: One to ask the state Department of Lands to come back in one year with a plan for eventually disposing of its state-owned cabin sites; one to go back to 10-year leases for cabins sites instead of the current 35 years; and one to ask a Land Board subcommittee to come back to the board next month with proposals on market rates for leases and premium rents, which are charged when state-owned cabin sites - with privately owned cabins on them - change hands. The Idaho Statesman's Dan Popkey covered the whole meeting; here's a link to his coverage.

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