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News >  Idaho

Workers Press To Reopen U.S. 12 Truckers, Resort Owners Hope State Meets Saturday Target For Lewiston-Missoula Route

A Dec. 1 slide that took a bite out of a major east-west route is causing Idaho highway officials to hustle like they haven't hustled in two decades. "The last time we fast-tracked contracts like this was when Teton Dam broke," said Pat Lightfield, maintenance engineer for the state Department of Transportation's Lewiston district. Lightfield hopes to have the 1,200-foot stretch of U.S. Highway 12 open Saturday.
News >  Idaho

Planner Sees Clear-Cut Reasons Behind Flooding Of North Idaho Streams

This fall's flood waters have subsided, but the questions remain in western Shoshone and eastern Kootenai counties: Are floods coming faster, or more frequently, than in the past? If so, is it because the watershed has been heavily logged? Shoshone County Planner Harold van Asche thinks the answer is yes on both counts.
News >  Spokane

Reservoir Counsel Seeks Cash

Years of progress toward ending pollution in Lake Roosevelt could go down the drain, say fishermen, county officials and others interested in the big Columbia River reservoir. They sent a letter Thursday to Rep. George Nethercutt, R-Wash., asking for $100,000 in federal cash to save the Lake Roosevelt Water Quality Council. The inter-agency council has coordinated research and pressured Canadian industry to stop sending pollutants downstream. It set the stage for a lake management plan, which is out for public comment.
News >  Idaho

Disposal Of Mining Waste Vastly Improved

While there's a mother lode of controversy about what should be done with waste from modern mines, no one disagrees that tailings disposal has vastly improved. Historic ore-processing mills sometimes squatted directly over streams, so the leftovers of the mineral-extraction process would be swept downstream. Or tailings were simply piled up anywhere, left to blow or wash away.
News >  Idaho

Batt Names Fisheries Nominees Three Agree Salmon Hurt By Overharvesting

Idaho Gov. Phil Batt, who believes overharvest is a big reason for the decline of his state's salmon, has nominated three like-minded men to help set ocean fishing regulations. One of the three will be chosen to serve on the Pacific Fishery Management Council. The federal board decides the number of fish that can be legally harvested up to 200 miles from the Northwest coast. Those species include the steelhead trout and endangered salmon that return to Idaho to spawn.
News >  Idaho

Group Discusses School Reform In Cda

Politicians and administrators who want to reform public schools were cautioned Tuesday against a one-size-fits-all fix. Most people agree schools need improving. But perspectives on how to do that vary among communities, among races and among people of different philosophies, pollster Vince Breglio said at a meeting of the Education Commission of the States.