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Conservation and working forests seem like a match worth promoting

Elk antler rubs scar aspens on 921 acres the Idaho Panhandle National Forests acquired in a land exchange with Stimson Lumber north of Lake Pend Oreille. The Rocky Mountain Elk Foundation helped broker the deal. (Rocky Mountain Elk Foundation)
Elk antler rubs scar aspens on 921 acres the Idaho Panhandle National Forests acquired in a land exchange with Stimson Lumber north of Lake Pend Oreille. The Rocky Mountain Elk Foundation helped broker the deal. (Rocky Mountain Elk Foundation)

CONSERVATION -- Hat's off to proponents of current North Idaho land and water conservation efforts that are trying to get traction.

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Comments on the proposed wetlands-for-timber trade can be submitted through March 24: r1fa_grants@fws.gov.



Rich Landers
Rich Landers joined The Spokesman-Review in 1977. He is the Outdoors editor for the Sports Department writing and photographing stories about hiking, hunting, fishing, boating, conservation, nature and wildlife and related topics.

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