Jeanne Green at the lake 1984. (Courtesy of Kathy Lefor)

Jeanne Green, who will turn 93 on Jan. 1, always said she wanted the 400 acres of lakefront, forested property on Lake Pend Oreille that her family homesteaded in 1902 to be conserved as-is and remain in the family.

An environmentalist, she donated Pearl Island, a 12-acre island near Hope where her great-uncle Henry homesteaded, to the Idaho Department of Fish and Game in 2009 as a sanctuary for nesting eagles.

But now the $15 million family property at Camp Bay on the western shore of Lake Pend Oreille is slated for development and in a dispute among her children.

The Idaho Supreme Court will decide if her oldest son exerted undue influence on her and her late husband, Ralph, to persuade them to cut four of their five children out of their wills and leave everything to the son who favored developing, rather than preserving, the property.

The property was described in court as “a little piece of heaven up on the lake in northern Idaho”/Betsy Russell, SR. More here.