'Ten Acres and a Dream' workshop offered in Post Falls

Idaho is well-known for extensive public lands; so much that people sometimes lose sight of how much private land we have in selected regions of the state. For example, Boundary, Bonner, Kootenai, and Benewah counties collectively have over 1.5 million acres of private lands — 47.5% of all lands in those counties.

Some of these private parcels are in large blocks, but most of them are smaller parcels owned by an ever-growing number of private landowners. Uses of these lands vary from forest, to pasture, to crops. People who move to these sites have many ideas as to what they want from the land but they may be less aware of how to achieve those goals or the tasks associated with living on and maintaining rural property.

University of Idaho Extension is offering a 1-day program designed to help owners of small rural acreages manage their land and meet their goals. The program, titled “10 Acres and a Dream”, was the idea of Idaho Master Forest Stewards, most of whom are private landowners themselves, and have interacted with a variety of new rural landowners who have struggled with making their dream of owning and tending rural property a reality.