Clark Fork Delta on the mend

More than 50,000 tons of rock have gone into rebuilding shorelines on the rapidly eroding delta. The half-mile peninsula that Cousins motored alongside is brand new. So were the willow trees, which were part of a massive planting effort on the newly created ground.

“In five years, the peninsula will be a big, green finger pointing into Lake Pend Oreille,” said Cousins, an Idaho Department of Fish and Game biologist. “You won’t even know that we did all this work here.” More here . Becky Kramer, SR