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• Field reports: Washington takes action on new hunting rules

  April 8, 2012 in Outdoors on Page C9 HUNTING – The Washington Fish and Wildlife Commission will take action on proposed changes in hunting rules for the 2012-14 seasons at a public meeting Friday and Saturday in Olympia. …

• 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

• Idaho wetlands fight in high court Monday

  January 8, 2012 in Idaho on Page B3 The U.S. Supreme Court will hear the opening arguments in Sackett v. EPA on Monday, a Priest Lake couple’s fight over whether their building lot contains wetlands. Mike and Chantell …

• Property owners tangle with EPA over wetland

  December 6, 2011 in City on Page A7 BOISE – An Environmental Protection Agency dispute with a North Idaho man over whether he illegally destroyed a wetland has attracted the attention of Gov. Butch Otter and U.S. Rep. … 1

• Another Idaho landowner gets into wetlands wrangle with EPA

  December 5, 2011 in Idaho BOISE, Idaho (AP) — An Environmental Protection Agency dispute with a northern Idaho man over whether he illegally destroyed a wetland has attracted the attention of Gov. C.L. “Butch” Otter … 16

• 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

• 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 …

• Lawsuit over river discharges could be boon for wetland

  August 24, 2010 in City on Page A1 A lawsuit over river discharges threatens the January 2012 startup of a new Spokane County sewage treatment plant, so officials are working on a backup. Plan B, restoration of a … 6

• Meeting planned about wetlands restoration

  August 15, 2010 in City on Page B7 Priority areas for wetlands restoration in Pend Oreille County will be detailed in an open house Tuesday from 4 to 8 p.m., at the Kalispel Tribe’s Wellness Center in Usk, …

• Site is legacy to Slavin vision

  May 16, 2010 in Outdoors on Page C11 The namesake for Spokane County’s 628-acre James T. Slavin Conservation Area died at the age of 86 on March 3, but he’s left a living legacy for nature. Like most …

• Wet & Wild

  December 13, 2009 in Outdoors on Page C12 Wetlands were drained with the good-riddance stature of dirty bath water around the Inland Northwest in the last century. Now some of them are being restored, in bits and pieces, …

• Wetlands near Challis will be preserved

  March 25, 2009 in Idaho on Page A8 BOISE – More than 1,200 acres of wetlands and other habitat near Challis will be protected under a new conservation easement. The Nature Conservancy bought the easement rights to try …