Idaho Conservation League adds five staffers By: IBR Staff March 4, 2021 Comments Off on Idaho Conservation League adds five staffers
The Idaho Conservation League is adding five members to its team.
Joan Bevirt
Joan Bevirt serves as the nonprofit’s membership and development associate. Her background includes working in membership and development with such organizations as the Idaho State Historical Society, Girl Scouts and the YMCA. She holds a degree in recreation administration from Southern Illinois University–Carbondale.
Ellie Hudson-Heck
Ellie Hudson-Heck is the North Idaho Conservation Assistant. She will focus on regional conservation issues, including legacy mining pollution in Lake Coeur d’Alene and clean energy opportunities, as well as analyze air and water permits statewide. She is concurrently completing her Ph.D. in chemical oceanography. She has been a recent member of ICL’s Emerging Leaders for Idaho’s Environment program and comple
Those issues are the focus of an upcoming assessment by the nonprofit National Academy of Sciences, Engineering and Medicine.
The Idaho Department of Environmental Quality and Kootenai County contracted with NASEM and the Coeur d’Alene Tribe is supportive of the study, which will evaluate the current water quality in the lake and will assess future trends.
“We need and we hope that this evaluation proves our data is sound. And I am certain it is sound, said Phil Cernera, the tribe’s director of lake management talking during the assessment team s first public meeting Wednesday.
The Coeur d’Alene Tribe has been trying to get the state and the federal government to clean up the lake for decades. The tribe pulled out of the state’s lake management plan in 2019, citing inaction. A couple months later, Governor Brad Little asked for a third-party review of the water quality data and management efforts.
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February 17, 2021 7:00 PM Esther Bower
HARRISON, Idaho A 77-year-old woman drowned while trying to save her pet that got loose on Lake Coeur d’Alene.
Leslie Daniels died yesterday after the Kootenai County Dive Team rescued her body and tried to resuscitate her near Harlow Point. Rescuers don’t want to see another life lost to the lake this winter.
“What may look like thick ice, isn’t,” said Chris Way, the Kootenai Fire Chief.
This isn’t the first drowning they’ve had this season. Way says another man lost his life nearby while ice fishing. No matter how thick the ice looks, it can be deceptive. With the winter we’ve had, no ice is thick enough right now, and the only way to test its thickness will put you in great danger.
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This is a bucket-list type of location for so many reasons that include places I ve visited, events hosted, and one time I was left there. Let s start with the reasons to visit first. The Lake Coeur d Alene Resort is beautiful and people travel from all over the country to visit. You can take the 7-hour road trip straight north with some pretty could sleepovers in McCall, Cascade, and Lewiston.