Long Hears Criticism of Forest Service
Undersecretary Robert Long and Rep. Steve Symms visited Coeur d'Alene to hear complaints about timber sales and Forest Service practices. Idaho forests face severe losses, with 29 percent of commercial land yielding 44 percent of harvest, blamed on outside environmental pressure and perceived mismanagement.
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Idaho
Forest Service
Robert Long
Long
Steve Symms
Coeur d’Alene
Symms
Joe Venishnick
Sandpoint
North Idaho Forestry Association
Weather and timber woes spill into Idaho forests
Sandpoint weather stays partly cloudy through Saturday with some showers and a 20 percent rain chance. In Idaho, delays in timber sales cause losses of marketable timber as residents debate how much timber is dying in forests near Coeur d Alene and Cataldo, with officials calling for solutions.
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Sandpoint
North Shore Motor Hotel
Idaho
Ed Sverdsten
Cataldo
Associated Logging Contractors, Inc
Ray Hilding
Coeur d’Alene
Coeur d’ Alene National Forest
Long
Symms
Convention Center
Andrus Seeks Reduced Rates for Idaho Hay Shipments
Gov. Cecil D. Andrus sent a telegram to the secretary of agriculture asking the Interstate Commerce Commission to grant a formal drought order allowing common carriers to cut rates for hay shipments into Idaho. He also requested aid for Bonner Boundary and Kootenai counties facing hay shortages.
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Boise
wuPn
Cecil D
Planning and Zoning Deliberates Highway Zoning Change
County planners met to discuss a proposed rezoning along US 95 south of the Long Bridge from agriculture suburban to recreation open space. A Grouse Meadows subdivision final plat of 16 four plus acre lots was approved without a quorum, and a Pendar Idaho Tracts addition presentation was deferred to September.
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Long Bridge
Grouse Meadows
Farm To Market Road
Pendar Idaho
Dick Tucker
Planning and Zoning Commission
Gunclub Road
New Sand Creek Highway 200 Extension Opens Ahead of Paving
Kuney Construction announces the Sand Creek bridge replacement stretches open to traffic before paving. A 210 foot bridge, prime coat laid, paving set for early September and final completion by month end. Crew of 25, erosion control, lighting, fencing underway. Speed limit 35 mph now, 45 mph after completion. drivers urged to slow and heed flagman.
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Sand Creek
Kuney Construction
Kuney Construction Company
Sandpoint
Bonner County Courthouse Adds Two Story Expansion
Construction begins at the Bonner County Courthouse with Coman Construction of Spokane tearing out sidewalks and obsolete exterior work. Footings will be laid for east and south additions housing clerk, assessor and sheriff offices. Aztech Electric bids 27977 and Pend Oreille Plumbing bids 32977 for electrical and mechanical work. Architects plan buick stucco facing, a new south entrance, and relocation of Planning and Zoning and County Commissioners offices.
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Bonner County
Coman Construction Co
Spokane
County ‘Aduditor
County Planning and Zoning
Aztech Electric Inc
Pend Oreille*Plumbing
Saundpoint
George M. Basque
Jack Sackville-West
Buick
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Spokane Audubon Society
North Shore
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U. S. Forest Service
Kiwanis Club
Andrus
Heitman
Commission
Roy Wise
Board of County Com- Planners
Highway 95
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