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• Landowners Sort Through Consequences Of County Urban Growth Boundaries

  February 15, 1997 in Washington Voices on Page V5 The urban growth boundaries have been set, but who in the Valley is a winner and who is a loser is still being debated. Opinions on winners and losers run …

• Panel Considers Federal Land Management Timber Industry Sponsors Discussion Of Local Control Of National Resources

  December 13, 1996 in Nation/World on Page A1 Professor Kim Taylor-Thompson moderates a discussion of natural resources and the environment in Coeur d’Alene. Photo by Craig Buck/The Spokesman-Review

• Swap Called Good For All Concerned Advantages Seen For Wildlife, Public And Lumber Company

  December 1, 1996 in Idaho on Page B1 Wildlife will get a safe haven, J.D. Lumber Co. will get almost 300 acres of timber, and the public will get more shoreline on Lake Coeur d’Alene. That’s the deal …

• Battle Continuing Over New Alton’s

  November 28, 1996 in Washington Voices on Page N7 North Spokane residents battling to stop Wal-Mart from coming into their neighborhood clashed with Alton’s Tires representatives last week before the Spokane County hearing examiner. While traffic, size and location …

• Swaps May Lead To Speculation In Federal Lands Developers Rush To File Mine Claims In Environmentally Sensitive Areas

  November 18, 1996 in Nation/World on Page A9 President Clinton stood on a breezy plain just outside Yellowstone National Park earlier this year, announcing an agreement to halt a massive gold mine by swapping $65 million in federal …

• Angry Crowd Blasts Rural Land Plan Limiting Size Of Rural Lots To No Less Than 40 Acres Angers Landowners Near Mount Spokane

  November 15, 1996 in Nation/World on Page A1 Tina Knapp was raised in the city. But she’s all country now, having moved to 400 acres in the rolling hills south of Mount Spokane to become a farmer. Now …

• Land For Auction Includes 11-Acre Commercial Site

  November 8, 1996 in City on Page B4 The city of Spokane is auctioning off three pieces of land including several acres near Northpointe Plaza worth at least $1.75 million. An informational meeting on the surplus land sale …

• West Plains Residents Fighting Landfill Expansion

  October 3, 1996 on Page S2 Neighbors Melanie Wilke, left, and Barbara Thompson are among those hoping to stop the proposed expansion of a landfill near their homes along Brooks Road. Photo by Dan McComb/The Spokesman-Review

• Clear Controversy Homeowners Fight With Developers Over Creation Of 75-Foot Buffer Zone At Hayden Lake

  September 30, 1996 in Nation/World on Page A1 Getting slimed. Four generations of Gerry House’s family have lived around Hayden Lake and he has helped write a proposed waterfront development ordinance. Photo by Jesse Tinsley/The Spokesman-Review

• They Were Hunting For A Citation Men Bring Dispute To A Head Over Access To Hunting Grounds In Selkirk Mountains

  September 28, 1996 in Nation/World on Page A1 Hunters with stock in an old gold mine are wrangling with the U.S. Forest Service over access to the cave and prime hunting grounds in the Selkirk Mountains. Two Boundary …

• U.S. Forest Service, Potlatch Close Deal

  September 26, 1996 in Idaho on Page B3 The U.S. Forest Service and Potlatch Corp. have finalized the exchange of nearly 40,000 acres in north-central Idaho. The agency traded 14,232 acres on the Clearwater National Forest north of …

• Landfill’s Plan To Grow Irks Residents Operator Says 251-Acre Expansion On West Plains Not For Trash; Smell, Rodents Won’t Be A Problem

  September 12, 1996 in Nation/World on Page A1 Melanie and Dick Wilkie are spending $20,000 remodeling their West Plains home to get a better view of the wheat field across the street. On Saturday, they and their neighbors …

• Blm Land More Popular With Age Celebrating 50 Years, Bureau Faces Increasing Challenges

  July 12, 1996 in Idaho on Page B1 Visits by recreational users to land in Idaho overseen by the federal Bureau of Land Management have skyrocketed in recent years, from 1.5 million in 1985 to 7.6 million in …

• On A Short Pier Lots Riding As State Considers Ways To Profit From Its Priest Lake Property

  June 9, 1996 in Nation/World on Page A1 1. Confidence eroded. Dale and Sandy Peringer sold their farmhouse in Rosalia, Wash., to live year-round at Priest Lake. The Peringers, holding their granddaughter Gina, now fear they may be …

• City Says No To Sanders Beach Condos Council Member Pursues Buying Land For Public

  June 1, 1996 in Nation/World on Page A1 The city drew a line in the sand Friday over development at Sanders Beach. Planning and building officials told an East Lakeshore Drive homeowner the city’s shoreline development rules prevent …

• Land Board Looks For Better Real Estate State Controller Says Idaho Could Be Making More Money; Critics Cite Politics

  June 1, 1996 in Nation/World on Page A1 Why should Idaho have millions of dollars of its school endowment fund tied up in grazing land that returns only 60 cents an acre, when it could be making a …

• Lawmakers Fighting For ‘Wise Use’

  May 12, 1996 in City on Page B1 It has one of those innocuous names that only a bureaucrat could like, but the Interior Columbia Basin Ecosystem Management Project has become the latest target of the “wise use” …

• New Access Rules Could Help Landowners Incorrectly Divided Kootenai County Subdivisions Keep Buyers From Building Homes On Their Land

  April 26, 1996 in Idaho on Page B1 Realtor Patrick Hall thought he had a good deal, paying $165,000 for a rural, 10-acre waterfront tract. Photo by Jesse Tinsley/The Spokesman-Review

• Woman Told Home Is Illegal

  April 26, 1996 in Idaho on Page B1 A proposed law that would allow building in illegal subdivisions would not just help those with road problems. Ask Sharon Babcock, who lived in her Rathdrum-area home more than a …

• Land Around Fairchild Subject Of Compatibility Study

  April 21, 1996 in City on Page B3 A new study that discusses the use of land surrounding Fairchild Air Force Base was released recently by base officials. The Air Installation Compatible Use Zone study explains changes in …

• Giving Ground Frustrated Landowner Willing To Donate Lake Property To State

  March 13, 1996 in Idaho on Page B1 The owner of “The Point” at Hauser Lake is offering to give the tip of the peninsula to the state for permanent public access. “We’d just like to get it …

• Our Officials Must Take Enlightened Control Of Growth

  February 11, 1996 in City on Page B11 Listen! Do you hear that insistent ringing? Wake up, Spokane, that’s an alarm bell! Developers are building, people are moving, but our local nongovernments (as in “not quite good enough …

• Panel Will Look At Development Issues

  February 8, 1996 in Washington Voices on Page N2 This is the year of decision for Spokane city and county officials implementing state growth management policies. In the next few months, a growth management committee advising county commissioners will …

• Sloan Gives Up Fight Against Federal Project Agrees To Turn Over Land Needed For Water Line

  January 13, 1996 in Washington Voices on Page V5 Stan Sloan has given in to the federal government. The Post Falls man agreed last week to turn over to the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services a small …

• Protecting Lands Top Priority Columbia River Basin Residents Rank Commercial Use Lower

  November 18, 1995 in Idaho on Page B1 A new survey by faculty members at the University of Idaho Department of Geography found that Columbia River Basin residents overwhelmingly want their forests, rangelands and wilderness protected. When asked …

• Priest Lake Cabin Owners Oppose Sell-Or-Swap Idea, Letters Show

  November 15, 1995 in Idaho on Page B1 Gov. Phil Batt said Tuesday he has received half a dozen letters from Priest Lake cabin owners who oppose any move by the state to sell or exchange the land …

• Lake Renters Could Get Chance To Buy Idaho Sites

  October 11, 1995 in City on Page B6 More than 300 people who rent their Priest Lake cabin sites from the state of Idaho could get a chance at owning the land they lease. Idaho’s Land Board on …

• Panel Identifies Areas In Need Of Protection

  September 9, 1995 in Washington Voices on Page V3 Cars and trucks on Interstate 90 zoom past a fisherman on the Spokane River, one of the areas recommended for new conservation measures. Photo by Steve Thompson/The Spokesman-Review

• Rules Proposed To Protect Areas From Development

  September 7, 1995 in Washington Voices on Page N7 After three years, 48 meetings and 1,500 hours of volunteer time, a panel of Spokane County residents is proposing a wide-ranging set of regulations to protect steep slopes, wetlands and …

• Sides Debate Plan To Give States Blm Land

  August 2, 1995 in Idaho on Page B1 A plan to transfer 270 million acres of federal land to the states is expensive and unfair, a Clinton administration official said Tuesday. Bonnie Cohen, an assistant secretary at the …

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