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• Priest Lake cabin owners can request new appraisals

  May 22, 2013 in Idaho on Page A7 BOISE – Priest Lake cabin owners who object to skyrocketing appraisals on the state-owned land under their lake homes can request new appraisals, the state Land Board decided Tuesday. If …

• Priest Lake cabin owners can get new appraisals

  May 21, 2013 in Idaho Priest Lake cabin owners who object to new Idaho appraisals that showed the state-owned land under their lake homes ballooning in value this year by an average 84 percent can … 8

• Five cabins face ‘conflict bids’

  May 1, 2013 in Idaho on Page A6 BOISE – Four cabin owners on state-owned, leased land at Priest Lake, and one at Payette Lake, could lose their lake homes this fall after drawing competitive bids for their … 16

• Four Priest Lake cabin owners face competitive bids for properties

  April 30, 2013 in City, Idaho BOISE – Four cabin owners on state-owned, leased land at Priest Lake, and one at Payette Lake, could lose their lake homes this fall after drawing competitive bids for their … 21

• Time short for cabin site renters

  April 17, 2013 in Idaho on Page A6 BOISE – Idaho’s top elected officials quietly heard a presentation Tuesday on what happens if longtime renters of state-owned lake cabin sites just walk away from their leases as rates …

• Clock ticking for state-owned Priest Lake cabin sites

  April 16, 2013 in Idaho Idaho’s top state elected officials Tuesday quietly heard a presentation on what happens if longtime renters of state-owned lake cabin sites just walk away from their leases, faced with big … 24

• 2013 is year of the kokanee for area anglers

  April 11, 2013 in Outdoors on Page K2 Region-wide forecasts suggest 2013 will be “the year of the kokanee” in the Inland Northwest. Dworshak Reservoir in Idaho and Lake Koocanusa in Montana are providing their best fishing in …

• Priest Lake cabin owners face costly choice

  April 8, 2013 in Idaho For the first time ever, the state of Idaho is opening up every state-owned cabin site on Priest Lake to conflict bidding – meaning others could bid against the current … 47

• Priest Lake history told through just-released photo collection

  March 14, 2013 in Features on Page C1 Seventy years of Priest Lake history told through 380 photographs are now on display in your home, office or wherever you want to view them. The Priest Lake Museum Association … 1

• Field Reports: Priest Lake fish plan to be presented at meeting

  February 24, 2013 in Outdoors on Page C11 FISHING – As a divisive debate on managing non-native lake trout with native cutthroats and popular kokanee at Priest Lake continues, Idaho Fish and Game officials will hold a public … 2

• Out & About: Researchers to net mackinaw at Priest Lake

  January 27, 2013 in Outdoors on Page C12 Lake trout studied at Priest Lake FISHING – Coinciding with a debate about future management of the Priest Lake mackinaw fishery, the Idaho Fish and Game Department is joining a …

• Lake trout yields boarder’s lost finger

  September 26, 2012 in City on Page A1 When Haans Galassi of Colbert got a call from the Bonner County sheriff Tuesday morning, he had a feeling he knew what it was about. “The sheriff called me and … 8

• Lake trout gives fisherman the finger

  September 25, 2012 in Idaho, Outdoors When Haans Galassi of Spokane got a call from the Bonner County sheriff Tuesday morning, he had a feeling he knew what it was about. 5

• Covenants placed on Priest Lake sites

  August 2, 2012 in City, Idaho on Page A6 BOISE – Idaho’s state Land Board voted Wednesday to impose restrictive covenants on state-owned cabin sites at Priest Lake to ensure that the land use there doesn’t change as some … 1

• Idaho OKs restrictions for Priest Lake cabin sites

  August 1, 2012 in Idaho Idaho’s state Land Board voted unanimously today to impose restrictive covenants on state-owned cabin sites at Priest Lake, to ensure that the land use there doesn’t change as some or … 1

• Priest Lake covenant proposal riles some cabin owners

  July 18, 2012 in Idaho on Page A8 BOISE – As Idaho moves toward transferring hundreds of state-owned cabin sites on scenic Priest Lake to private owners through land exchanges or auctions, the state wants to protect the …

• Idaho mulls covenants on Priest Lake cabin sites

  July 17, 2012 in Idaho As Idaho moves toward transferring hundreds of state-owned cabin sites on scenic Priest Lake to private owners through land exchanges or auctions, the state wants to protect the value of … 1

• Priest Lake leaseholders could lose longtime homes

  July 9, 2012 in City, Idaho on Page A1 When Jim and Myrna Brown invested in their Priest Lake cabin 20 years ago, they hoped summers on North Idaho’s “crown jewel” would become a family legacy. Like so many … 68

• Police investigate boat crash on Priest Lake

  July 5, 2012 in City The Bonner County Sheriff’s Office is investigating a Wednesday night boating accident on Priest Lake that left three people in need of medical attention. 2

• Snowmobiler-commissioned study disputes caribou impact

  June 14, 2012 in City, Idaho, Outdoors on Page A1 PRIEST LAKE, Idaho – Protecting habitat for woodland caribou has cost North Idaho’s economy $26 million, with winter tourism in the resort area of Priest Lake taking the biggest hit, … 8

• High court backs Idahoans

  March 22, 2012 in City on Page A1 A Priest Lake, Idaho, couple has prevailed in a property rights case involving the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency. The U.S. Supreme Court sided unanimously with Mike and Chantell Sackett, who … 7

• Sacketts tell panel about EPA woe

  March 1, 2012 in City, Idaho on Page A6 WASHINGTON – A North Idaho couple took their fight against the Environmental Protection Agency to Congress this week, saying the federal government is destroying people’s lives. Mike and Chantell Sackett, …

• Field reports: Visiting snowy owls find roads rough

  December 18, 2011 in Outdoors on Page C11 MIGRANTS – Snowy owls seem to be showing up in ones and twos all over the northern tier of the United States this winter as they migrate from arctic homes …

• Priest Lake couple’s land dispute with EPA going to high court

  November 6, 2011 in Idaho on Page A1 PRIEST LAKE, Idaho – Four years ago, Mike and Chantell Sackett cleared a lot to build a house overlooking one of North Idaho’s most scenic mountain lakes. They pictured a … 17

• Food storage rules set for Panhandle

  October 6, 2011 in City, Idaho, Outdoors on Page A5 The Forest Service is stepping up efforts to reduce conflicts between people and wildlife, especially bears. On Tuesday the Idaho Panhandle National Forests will enact rules dealing with human food … 2

• Man takes spartan approach to row length of Priest Lake

  September 4, 2011 in Outdoors on Page C12 His recent feat has left reasonable people thinking Stan Bech has only one oar in the water. But if that were the case, he never could have rowed the length … 1

• Chattaroy man injured in plane crash at Priest Lake

  August 23, 2011 in City, Idaho A Chattaroy man is in the hospital after he crashed his small plane at Priest Lake today. 1

• Kalispel Tribe restoring native trout in Pend Orielle tributary

  July 24, 2011 in Outdoors on Page C10 The good ol’ days are back for cutthroat trout in a 5 1/2-mile stretch of a Pend Oreille River tributary. A handful of genetically pure westslope cutthroat trout have been …

• High court takes Idaho property case

  June 29, 2011 in Idaho on Page A7 A North Idaho couple’s fight with the federal government over whether their Priest Lake property has wetlands will be heard by the U.S. Supreme Court. On Tuesday, Supreme Court justices …

• 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. …

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