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Becky Kramer
Becky Kramer is a reporter for The Spokesman-Review in the Idaho department. She covers environment and natural resource issues.
How to contact Becky
- Email: beckyk@spokesman.com
- Phone: 208-765-7122
- Fax: 208-765-7149
Recent stories by Becky
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Wolf season extended by three months
November 20, 2009 in Outdoors, Idaho on Page A7
Idaho’s wolf hunt will be extended through March 31, or until each hunting zone reaches its quota, the state’s Fish and Game Commission decided at a Thursday meeting in Coeur …
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Idaho’s wolf-hunting season extended three months
November 19, 2009 in Idaho Idaho’s wolf hunt will be extended through March 31, or until each hunting zone reaches its quota, the state’s Fish and Game Commission decided at a Thursday meeting in Coeur …
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CdA nursery grows saplings to order for Forest Service
October 21, 2009 in Idaho on Page A1 Over a three-year period, wildfires charred 50,000 acres of the Custer National Forest in South Dakota. In some 1,000-acre tracts, not a single ponderosa pine tree remained to cast new …
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Amid silver’s steady rise, sides fight over mine lease
October 20, 2009 in Business on Page A8 Nine months after the Sunshine Mine’s operators filed for bankruptcy, a court battle is heating up over control of the historic silver mine. Sterling Mining Co. reopened the Sunshine Mine …
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Sandpoint byway erosion control draws EPA’s scrutiny, complaint
October 16, 2009 in Idaho on Page A7
The Idaho Transportation Department is again in trouble with the federal regulators over faulty erosion controls at a U.S. Highway 95 construction project. An inspector with the U.S. Environmental Protection …
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Four accused of poaching
October 14, 2009 in Idaho on Page A5
Acting on tips from residents, Idaho game officers have nabbed four men accused of poaching elk. A Bonners Ferry veterinarian and his hunting partner were charged with illegally taking one …
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Bears amble far, wide when year’s berry bad
October 10, 2009 in Idaho on Page A1 Bear populations rise and fall on huckleberry crops. So the data from a survey north of Bonners Ferry initially stumped Barb Moore. During 2004 – the second year in a … 1
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Fish and Wildlife unveils wolf plan
October 7, 2009 in Idaho on Page A5
International borders and state lines are no deterrent to gray wolves, which are drifting into Washington from neighboring packs in British Columbia, Idaho and Montana. At least two wolf packs …
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Fueling a new industry
October 4, 2009 in Business on Page E1
When Shawn Montee finished a logging job, thousands of BTUs of energy used to go up in smoke. His crews gathered up the logging slash and torched it. To Montee, …
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EPA studying dangers near old Zonolite factory
October 1, 2009 in Idaho on Page A8
Respirator-wearing technicians from the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency were back testing for asbestos this week near W.R. Grace’s former Zonolite factory in Spokane. During soil testing in June, the agency …
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Toxic algae in Long Lake
September 30, 2009 in Idaho on Page A5
The discovery of toxic algae blooms in Long Lake has prompted authorities to warn residents to stay out of the water and keep their pets and livestock away, too. A …
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Repository shipments begin
September 29, 2009 in Idaho on Page A1 Shipments of mine waste started arriving at the East Mission Flats repository Monday, after a top Superfund official endorsed a plan to store 40,000 truckloads of soil tainted with heavy … 1
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UI professor joins ice melt research
September 29, 2009 in Idaho on Page A5 At the Greenland ice sheet’s coldest and thickest point, where temperatures can plunge to 55 degrees below zero and ancient ice layers are 10,000 feet deep, a University of Idaho …
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Avista rate increase requests still open to public input
September 26, 2009 in Idaho on Page A1 Members of the public will get two chances Wednesday to air their views on Avista Corp.’s request to boost electric and natural gas rates. The Washington Utilities and Transportation Commission … 3
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‘Bucket’ short a finalist in water use contest
September 22, 2009 in Idaho on Page A5 In Ghana, a single bucket of water goes a long, long way. With five gallons of water, a family can wash and rinse dinner dishes or do a load of …
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State releases clean river plan
September 16, 2009 in Idaho on Page A1 The Washington Department of Ecology unveiled a plan Tuesday to curtail algae-producing phosphorus in the Spokane River and improve dissolved oxygen levels for fish. Under the plan, which needs state … 2
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Avista cutting natural gas rates
September 15, 2009 in Idaho on Page A1 Avista Corp.’s natural gas customers can expect lower bills this winter as a result of dropping wholesale prices. On Monday, the utility asked state regulators in Washington for permission to … 2
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Idaho wildlife manager talks about elk herds and wolf packs
August 31, 2009 in Outdoors, Idaho on Page A5 Fewer North Idaho families will have elk steaks in their freezers this fall. Two severe winters, plus a growing wolf population, have dramatically reduced elk calf survival rates. To allow … 3
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Wolf hunt foes, supporters say science backs them up
August 29, 2009 in Idaho on Page B1
Milt Turley, an elk hunter, hung a sign on his pickup that read: “Wolves are eating my family’s dinner as we speak.” Others carried signs proclaiming “Wolves – part of …
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the great indoors
August 24, 2009 in Idaho on Page A1 Dr. Kristin Mansfield stopped performing wildlife necropsies in her bathtub after her kids were born. She moved to her barn instead. Lugging animal carcasses home was messy and cumbersome. But …
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