Animals move atop and beneath snow

Winter can bring a range of snow conditions from minimal snow to deep snow with an icy crust. Whether the snow condition is favorable or not depends on how the animal moves through it or on it.

Do you know your cones?

Plink, plink, plink, plop. Plink, plink, plink, plop. The sound of a busy squirrel harvesting cones as they drop to the forest floor. The squirrel is harvesting cones with the seeds still intact so he can stash them for winter.

Daddy longlegs not spiders or venomous

Wildland engine in field

By AARON BOHACHEK

This to come: Expect more snow, cold weather

The bulk of winter is yet to come and so may the predictions of the strong La Niña weather.

Light turnout, close races

Only 30 percent of registered county voters turned out for the primary election Tuesday, but several of the races were surprisingly close.

The Queen and I

Ken Carpenter

Dr. Marianne Paulsen (DVM)

Dr. Marianne Paulsen, wife of former Ida Grove resident Marc Paulsen, slipped quietly to sleep at 12:05 a.m., Friday, July, 30,  2010, after struggling several years with a progressive form of Multiple Sclerosis.

BFHS robotics team enjoys remarkable trip

BONNERS FERRY — The Bonners Ferry High School Robotics Team, Alpha +, participated in the 2010 FIRST Robotics World Championship held in the Georgia Dome in Atlanta, Ga. 

Letter

A Sandpoint log truck driver, reported as critically injured after a July 2 crash outside Libby, Mont., has improved to satisfactory condition, according to a spokeswoman with a hospital in Seattle.

Spreading the word

Dr. Imre Schmidt of Bonners Ferry was the oldest to swim in Saturday’s 14th Annual Long Bridge Swim in Sandpoint.

Democrats raise three times as much money as GOP commissioners

The two Democrats running for Boundary County Commissioner have raised three times more money than the Republican incumbents.

Amy Elizabeth Farrell

Amy Elizabeth Farrell, 21, died Saturday, Nov. 29, 2008, at Kootenai Medical Center in Coeur d’Alene from injuries she received in an accident in Bonners Ferry.

IFG: Dogs, deer don't mix

Last week brought the first snowfall of the season to much of the Panhandle. Relatively early snows are exciting news to skiers and snowmobilers who love to be enjoying their pursuits by Thanksgiving. With the holiday coming late in the month this year and snow already falling, many are optimistic they will be on the slopes and groomed trails on turkey day.

Candidate for governor talks about feds, wolves

Rex Rammell, a self-proclaimed simple man who is running for governor of Idaho, spoke about his desire to take the state back from the federal governement.

Badgers lose playoff opener

COEUR d’ALENE — In the first round of the 3A District 1 tournament Monday, Feb. 19 at North Idaho College, the Timberlake Tigers beat the Bonners Ferry Badgers 51-39.

This Week In Bonners Ferry History

100 Years Ago

This Week In Bonners Ferry History

100 Years Ago

Osprey return to nest in Boundary County!

“I think he’ll be to Rome as is the ‘Osprey’ to the fish, who takes it by sovereignty of nature.” (Coriolanus, 4.7.37-39) — Shakespeare 1564-1616

Muskrats adapt well to winter in Boundary County

On a cloudy, rainy morning beside a calm flowing creek I spotted a fur-bearing animal, smaller than a beaver, busily eating on the side of the creek bank while sitting on ice.