Blast From The Past — 3/4/1988

From the files of the Spokesman-Review, a story I wrote 25 years ago:

The state of Idaho already has been extremely generous to resort owner Duane Hagadone, sayd a Kootenai Environmental Alliance board member. Hagadone’s properties now cover about 26 acres of the Lake Coeur d’Alene lakebed, and that will expand to almost 40 acres if he’s allowed to build his controversial floating golf gree, Mike Wytychak told KEA members Thursday. “That’s quite a bit of our lake,” he said at the organization’s weekly luncheon. “It’s a public body of water.” Wytychak said KEA plans to use the information in its appeal of a state Land Board decision granting Hagadone an encroachment permit to use 6.6 acres of lakebed for the floating island/DFO. Full story here.

Question: I’d say that Floating Green worked out pretty well for this region, wouldn’t you?