Student Winners Selected For Forest Essay Contest

The following North Idaho students recently won a $100 savings bond, $200 for classroom projects and a certificate for essays selected in the Forest Products Week Essay Contest: Beth Johnson, Valley View Elementary School in Bonners Ferry; Jack Kearn, home schooled in Hayden; and Emily Clipson, homeschooled in Oldtown.

Winners were selected by grade division from nearly 600 submissions statewide. The essays shared how forest products touched the lives of the students and how they would manage the forests to provide for products but also clean air, water, and wildlife habitats.

Dr. Maurice Hornocker, director of the University of Idaho Hornocker Wildlife Institute, has received the 1996 Earle A. Chiles Award.

Hornocker recieved the honor for his pioneering studies in predator-prey relationships and distribution patterns in mountain lion populations in the west, along with their successful application to worldwide wildlife management strategies.

As a result of his research and telemetry tracking techniques, the cougar’s classification in Idaho was changed from vermin to game animal.

Sherri Croxford, has been named by her peers as the Best Western Templin’s Resort Employee-of-the-Month for November.

Croxford, who began her employment at the resort as a hostess in Mallard’s Restaurant in 1995, was transferred to the hotel front desk in January as a clerk/operator.

, DataTimes MEMO: Contact for Idaho Achievements is Sherry Adkins. Tell us about your achievements by writing to: Achievements, The Spokesman-Review, Suite 200, 608 Northwest Blvd., Coeur d’Alene, ID 83814. Pictures must be accompanied by a self-addressed, stamped envelope.