Slash piles replace transient hideout

Several slash and garbage piles that were left behind on a tract of land formerly used to house a trespassing transient population are still just sitting on the property. The previously densely wooded area in Coeur d’Alene north of the Silver Lake Mall and adjacent to Target and Ross was thinned out last year when the property owner, Spokane developer Harlan Douglass of Douglass Properties, cleared it because of its history of homeless encampments. “Literally, they destroyed a piece of private property,” said Shawn Montee, owner or Shawn Montee Timber Company, which has the logging contract with Douglass. “It was a really gross job”/ Devin Heilman , Coeur d’Alene Press. More here.