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Tue., Sept. 20, 2016

Forest Service temporarily closes Quartz Creek Road near Priest Lake

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PUBLIC LANDS -- Idaho Panhandle National Forests officials at Priest Lake are temporarily closing a section of Forest Road 334 starting Oct. 1 while a culvert is replaced.

Quartz Creek Road, as it's called, will be closed from the junction with Forest Road 416 and the junction with Forest Road1300.

Tim Knight, Priest Lake District Ranger, said he is aware that this is a popular route.

Replacing the culvert improves the fish passage under the roadway, he said.

For updates, contact the Priest Lake Ranger District, (208) 243-6800.

Posted Sept. 20, 2016, 7:11 a.m.

By Rich Landers

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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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