Lettuce Alone Story and Photos by Joseph Zahnle In northern Idaho, if you have a vegetable garden, there’s a good chance raccoons will show up to raid it. The critters can scale fences to get in, and then
A Drawback of Daydreams By Diana Hooley I like to hike Chase’s hill above his house and the Snake River, near my place outside Hammett. The road is a steady incline, cut at an angle across the face
Story and Photos by Joseph Zahnle When my wife Barbara and I lived in Orofino, from 2010 to 2015, we frequently saw animals dead on the road. It seemed whitetail deer, raccoons, and squirrels were always getting struck
An Awesome Winter Spectacle at the Lake By Ray Harwood To many bird-watchers, the bald eagle carries a mystical aura, similar to the mythical thunder bird or phoenix of antiquity. I recollect seeing only a handful of the
Dancing in the Yard Story and Photos by Joseph Zahnle When my wife Barbara and I lived in Orofino from 2010 to 2015, our house on a hill in the woods about a mile from town was a
And Can Fly By Susan Hatch I wake the way you do when you’ve gone to sleep in a place you’ve never been before. I look out the second-story window from the pitch blackness of our mountain cabin
A Bald Eagle and Her Friends Beauty, the bald eagle featured on the cover of this magazine after she received a 3D-printed prosthetic beak (see “Engineering Beauty,” IDAHO magazine, May 2016), has since become the star of a
Once Rare, Now Returning By Mary Terra-Berns I was anxious to see what was in the net. The winch slowly spooled back rope and brought the hoop net up from the bottom of the river. Idaho Department of
Lovable Until They’re Not Story and Photos by Khaliela Wright I’m a cat person. In college, I acquired a persnickety part-Siamese, which I dubbed Stinky. He was my companion for nineteen years, making him my longest relationship. He
And the Humans They Encounter By Karlene Bayok Edwards Back in 1961, as we drove home to McCall after a week of camping, a large black bear walked out into the middle of the dirt road in front
