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• Caribou habitat costs studied

    May 31, 2012 in Idaho on Page A5 Protecting old-growth habitat for endangered woodland caribou will cost about $1.5 million over the next 20 years, according to a draft economic analysis prepared for the U.S. Fish and Wildlife …

• Bonner County files petition to delist caribou

  May 10, 2012 in Idaho on Page A7 Endangered species protections should be rescinded for the 46 caribou in the South Selkirk herd, Bonner County argued Wednesday in a delisting petition. “Caribou aren’t endangered, when you look at … 3

• County seeking to delist caribou

  April 29, 2012 in Idaho on Page B1 A law firm that successfully argued a North Idaho couple’s wetlands dispute with the federal government before the U.S. Supreme Court has been retained by Bonner County to petition for … 5

• Caribou face precarious prognosis

  February 26, 2012 in Outdoors, City, Idaho on Page A1 While the Cessna 182 circled, Tim Layser used binoculars to peer down into a snowy meadow. Woodland caribou tracks crossed the glade and led into a grove of trees. But … 16

• Caribou comment period extended

  February 1, 2012 in Idaho on Page A7 Members of the public will have an additional 60 days to comment on a controversial plan to designate 375,000 acres in the Selkirk Mountains as critical habitat for endangered caribou. …

• N. Idaho county presses caribou habitat challenge

  December 28, 2011 in Outdoors, Idaho Commissioners for northern Idaho’s Bonner County hope lawmakers and other local government officials will join them in challenging a plan to protect habitat for about 50 remaining woodland caribou in … 2

• Caribou protection worries officials

  December 21, 2011 in Idaho on Page A5 Protecting habitat for woodland caribou will create economic hardships in Bonner County’s rural communities, its board of commissioners said Tuesday, predicting that the designation would create new restrictions on logging, … 1

• 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 …

• Agencies increase caribou protections

  December 3, 2010 in Idaho on Page A8 Federal and state agencies will step up patrols in the Selkirk Mountains this winter to keep snowmobiles out of protected woodland caribou habitat. While most snowmobilers obey the rules, a …

• Lawsuit filed to protect caribou

  January 17, 2009 in Idaho on Page B6 Editor’s note: Part of this article was cut off in some editions of Friday’s newspaper because of a production error. Here is the story in its entirety. Woodland caribou in …