numerous profiles and feature articles, including this piece on urban moose in the panhandle.

a story about  historic fire lookouts and the volunteers who are restoring them.

a piece on the recovery of the Clark Fork Delta, a wetland once written off to erosion and reclaimed with the help of volunteers.

cover articles on bicyclists of all stripes, the national controversy over wolves as it plays out in north Idaho, and Sandpoint’s annual music festival. In addition, features about the town’s concern over increasing numbers of coal and oil trains coming through town, an organization working to save the stories of Sandpoint’s original inhabitants, and the retirement of Chair One,with its infamous midway off-ramp, at Schweitzer Mountain Resort (“I’ve had students who saw that off-ramp and just wouldn’t get off,” said one longtime ski instructor.)

a report on the possibility of increased train traffic in this train-intensive town due to oil trains, and several pieces about volunteer groups in Bonner County: the Trail Mix Committee, the Youth Accountability Board, the people who maintain the arboretum, and the person who’s watered the trees on the Long Bridge for more than 30 years.

a piece about an architect’s renovation of his great-grandfather’s historic Beardmore Block, complete with details of the runaway beer truck that slowed the project but could not stop it; a story that came out of years of singing in a local chorus, The Chorale Sings Beethoven; and a piece about the people who lived for millennia in what is now my back yard: Put It in Your Heart. A more recent piece profiles Kootenai, Idaho–the milltown that outlasted its mill.