Mad about Science: Horses
By Brenden BobbyReader Columnist Dogs have earned the moniker of “man’s best friend,” but it may be more accurate to relabel them as “man’s oldest friend.” Dogs were domesticated around 14,500 years ago, becoming...
Category: Pets & Animals
The island we call Earth
By Richard SevenichReader Contributor The Iran war (a.k.a. “Operation Epstein Fury”) has served as a very real distraction from other national and international issues. Countering this distraction, I will write about humanity’s extraction of...
Winter Carnival 2026: Week 2
By Ben OlsonReader Staff As evident with the snowfall in the mountains this week, winter isn’t packing it in quite yet. A final week of Sandpoint Winter Carnival events has been planned for outdoor...
BTAA releases 2025 Annual Report
By Reader Staff Better Together Animal Alliance recently released its 2025 Annual Report, tallying the thousands of animals and families the nonprofit helped throughout the year and looking to the future. The statistics highlight...
Environmental protection groups sue over Trestle Creek adjacent marina
By Soncirey MitchellReader Staff The Center for Biological Diversity and the Idaho Conservation League filed suit Dec. 18 against the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service and Army Corps of Engineers, challenging their permit approvals...
Man bites back at dogs
By Zach HagadoneReader Staff Among the quickest ways to get yourself in trouble is pointing out that all dogs are not God’s perfect creatures, nor do they belong in every space where humans conduct...
Identify that skull
By Ben OlsonReader Staff Our readers bring some interesting items into the Reader offices from time to time, but Jim Armbruster gets the prize for showing up with the first animal skull. Armbruster said...
Hunting for connection
By Zach HagadoneReader Staff I shot a turkey the other day — the first one I’ve ever shot, and really the first bird I’ve ever bagged. Unlike a lot of my country-kid pals back...
Happy trails
FSPW founding Director Phil Hough passes the torch to Rose Olson By Zach HagadoneReader Staff For 21 years, Phil Hough has been the face — and motive power — behind Friends of Scotchman Peaks...
Man’s best monster
A history of werewolves By Soncirey MitchellReader Staff Werewolves have been a vehicle for cultural fears since time immemorial, and, unlike most monsters, they have no single origin. Almost every culture in the world...
