In the 35 years Sue and I have lived in Sandpoint, we have echoed the gratefulness of so many people for living in this beautiful part of America. Yet it’s so easy to take this beauty for granted, isn’t it. What we forget is how the forests and water we are surrounded by are both a magnificent, natural legacy of history, but also renewable resources we are responsible to nurture into the future.
The community is invited to learn (or re-learn) about the care of our natural environment at a special Geezer Forum being held today at the Pine Street Woods.
Guest speaker for this outdoor learning event, which begins at 2:30 p.m., will be Bill Love.
Kaniksu Land Trust and the United States Forest Service have announced $600,000 in funding through the competitive USFS Community Forest and Open Space Conservation Program has been awarded to KLT for the acquisition and establishment of the property known locally as the Pine Street Sled Hill.
Just before the last band hit the Sledfest stage, Kaniksu Land Trust officials stopped the music.
Then, KLT staff and board members got on the stage, circled by the community, and announced they'd done it. They'd saved the Sled Hill. The community had raised the $2.1 million needed to buy and begin infrastructure work at the site.
"We have saved the Sled Hill together," Katie Cox, KLT executive director, said. "This is your Sled Hill."