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• Idaho Land Board updating plan

  September 21, 2011 in Idaho on Page A9 BOISE – An ideological debate in Idaho over government competing with the private sector has prompted the state Land Board to begin updating its asset management plan for the state …

• Idaho to update state lands investment policy

  September 20, 2011 in Idaho Idaho’s state Land Board voted unanimously today to begin crafting updates to its asset management plan for the state endowment, to reflect recent updates, such as the decision dispose of … 2

• Montanan picked as new Idaho lands chief

  August 23, 2011 in Idaho Idaho’s state Land Board has voted unanimously to hire Tom Schultz, current administrator of trust land management for the Montana Department of Natural Resources and Conservation, as Idaho’s new state …

• Eye on Boise: State endowment land may be restaurant site

  August 21, 2011 in Idaho on Page B2 The recent brouhaha over operation of a mini-storage business on Idaho state endowment land is expanding a bit. Now, a report has surfaced about the state Lands Department seeking proposals …

• No increase in endowment fund for Idaho schools next year

  August 16, 2011 in Idaho Idaho’s state Land Board voted 4-1 this morning to distribute $47.5 million next year to state endowment beneficiaries, which include public schools. That’s up 2.3 percent overall from this year’s …

• Land Board OKs sale of cabin sites

  May 18, 2011 in Idaho on Page A5 BOISE – Idaho in early June will prepare to sell or trade away some or all of its 521 leased lakefront cabin sites, including more than 350 at Priest Lake. …

• Judge says he’ll freeze cabin site rents

  May 4, 2011 in Idaho on Page A7 BOISE – Priest Lake cabin owners scored a surprise win in court Tuesday, as a district judge in Boise indicated he’ll issue an order to freeze the rents they pay …

• Priest Lake cabin owners get two more years

  April 19, 2011 in Idaho Owners of cabins on state-owned land at Priest Lake got another two-year lease extension today, but it comes with a rent hike.

• Land Board’s PR agent well known among GOP

  December 26, 2010 in Idaho on Page B1 BOISE – Idaho’s state Land Board has paid more than a quarter-million dollars since 2007 to one of the state’s top Republican operatives for a public relations campaign, but officials …

• Land Board has plan for Idaho cabin sites

  December 22, 2010 in Idaho on Page A7 BOISE – Idaho’s state Land Board wants public comments on a plan to get the state out of the business of renting lots for lakefront cabins – and give the …

• High court denies challenge to cabin land rents

  December 2, 2010 in Idaho on Page A7 BOISE – The Idaho Supreme Court on Wednesday tossed out a legal challenge to rents on state-owned cabin sites on two Idaho lakes, which charged that the state Land Board …

• Idaho high court hears arguments on cabin rents

    June 9, 2010 in Idaho Idaho’s latest rent plan for state-owned cabin sites at Priest and Payette lakes would result in an effective rate of just 1.8 percent of market value next year, according to … 2

• Idaho attorney general challenges cabin leases

    March 25, 2010 in Idaho on Page A5 BOISE – Idaho Attorney General Lawrence Wasden has filed a legal challenge over lease increases for state-owned cabin sites, including those on Priest Lake, arguing that the new lease rates … 1

• Priest Lake cabin lots will see rent increase

  March 17, 2010 in Idaho on Page A1 BOISE – Rents for state-owned cabin sites at Priest Lake will go up an average of 9 percent each year for five years starting in 2011, a 54 percent increase …

• Priest Lake state cabin rents to jump

  March 16, 2010 in Idaho Rents for state-owned cabin sites at Priest Lake will go up 9 percent next year and each year for the next five years, a 54 percent increase overall for the … 3

• Land board delays decision on cabin parcels

  February 17, 2010 in Idaho on Page A5 BOISE – Public land managers agreed Idaho should eventually sell 521 vacation cabin lots at Payette and Priest lakes that produce revenue for public schools, but they’ll wait until next …

• Board agrees to eventually sell cabin sites

  February 16, 2010 in City, Idaho After 31 months of work, the Idaho Land Board says it needs one more month to complete work on a new rental scheme for 521 cottage lots at Priest and …

• Idaho, Avista trade land

  November 18, 2009 in Idaho on Page A5 BOISE – Idaho officials agreed Tuesday to a land swap with Avista Corp., trading 120 acres of steeply forested land along Trestle Creek on the east side of Lake Pend …

• Idaho approves land swap with Avista

  November 17, 2009 in Idaho Top Idaho officials enthusiastically agreed Tuesday to a land swap with Avista Corp., trading 120 acres of steeply forested land along Trestle Creek on the east side of Lake Pend …

• Priest Lake lot fees in limbo

  July 26, 2009 in Idaho on Page B1 BOISE – When owners of hundreds of cabins on Idaho state land at Priest Lake submit their applications to renew their leases next year, each will have to pay a …

• Idaho freezes rent for cabins on state land

  December 17, 2008 in Idaho on Page B1 BOISE – Idaho’s top elected officials have agreed to freeze the rents they charge cabin owners on state lands for the next year. The 3-2 vote brought sighs of relief …

• Panel waits to act on Priest Lake rent relief

  December 5, 2007 in Idaho on Page B3 BOISE – Idaho’s top elected officials voted Tuesday to freeze cabin-site rents on Payette Lake for one year, but they made no change in Priest Lake cabin-site rents. “We were …

• Lake residents fight rent hike

  November 8, 2007 in Idaho on Page B1 BOISE – Priest Lake’s state-owned lakefront soon could become a very different place, cabin owners warned state lands officials Wednesday. Rent increases on state-owned cabin sites will prompt rustic cabins …

• Priest Lake site auction flops; state may revisit new lease rate

  October 29, 2007 in Idaho on Page A1 Bud Belles was 8 years old when his father bought the family cabin at Priest Lake in 1948 on land leased from the state of Idaho. Now the retired computer …

• Idaho may change Priest Lake leases

  July 11, 2007 in Idaho on Page B3 BOISE – People with cabins on state-owned lots at Idaho’s Priest Lake could get 30-year leases, up from the current 10 years – but they may pay more each year …

• Lakeside leases may go for more

  September 13, 2006 in Idaho on Page B1 BOISE – Idaho’s top elected officials think the state should be charging higher rents for state-owned cabin sites at Priest Lake. Because of that concern, the state Land Board on …