Forest fires are a fact of life in the Inland Northwest.
Homes located on forested lands (the "wildland interface") can be at high risk from forest fires. Rural homeowners can lessen that risk if they modify their houses and landscapes to make them less likely to ignite and easier for firefighters to access.
Learn more about conservation programs and meet local conservation representatives at a town hall information session free to the public this Thursday.
Because the state has a variety of latitudes, altitudes, soils, and precipitation patterns, Idaho has a wider variety of native trees than most other Rocky Mountain states.
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Looking up at the night sky, stars are everywhere seemingly unlimited in their scope.
And, just like those stars, the opportunities in the space industry are as unlimited and full of potential, Spacepoint's Kyle Averill said.
That, he said, is part of the reason he launched Spacepoint, a new observatory that is located at the University of Idaho's Sandpoint Organic Agriculture Center. Launched in March, Spacepoint a deliberate play on the new non-profit's home base aims to create both interest in, and a pipeline to, all aspects of the space industry.