Palouse Land Trust

09/04/2026

Awesome conservation news from our friends at Inland Northwest Land Conservancy, The Coeur d'Alene Tribe, and incredible private landowners!

https://www.spokesman.com/stories/2026/sep/03/family-donates-700-acres-to-protect-headwaters-of-/?fbclid=IwY2xjawUH3o5wZG9mBWV4dG4DYWVtAjExAHNydGMGYXBwX2lkEDIyMjAzOTE3ODgyMDA4OTIAAR6hHraoDOEusLuG2B3DcnGri58wPowMHd2Ml6eh3NSbJC7TuMs9zfLLEAivvA_aem_rdc7O3xbJOYJZmqJ-gitXg

John Bauer moved to the ground in 1976, the same year his parents purchased the 700 acres that contains the headwaters of Lake Creek, a tributary of Lake Coeur d'Alene north of Worley.

09/03/2026

The seasons are beginning to change, is your wardrobe ready? Now is the perfect time to gear up with PLT hoodies and sweatshirts, f***y packs, and hats! Shop our online store today for free in-town pick or shipping straight to you.

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09/02/2026

Have you registered yet? Save your spot by this Friday, September 4!

09/01/2026

How long has Idler's Rest held a special place in your heart? What does spending time beneath the cedars, pines, and firs do for you? What makes this place a community treasure? We're all ears!

This September, we invite you to share your Love Letters to the Forest to celebrate Idler’s Rest’s designation as a Community Forest through the Old-Growth Forest Network (see our website for details on the September 19 event)! The community is invited to put their feelings for this special place into words. Poems, memories, thank-yous, tiny stories, woodland declarations of devotion: we'll take them all.

You can access the online submission portal via the link in our bio or head out to the preserve and leave your words on the poet-tree, located at the trailhead to Penstemon Path in the upper parking area beginning September 2.

Today's photo is from the March 6, 1980 Whitman-Latah Record publication, a regional newspaper that was in production for nearly a century between the late 1800s and 1985.

08/31/2026

This Friday:

COFFEE TALK FRIDAY IS BACK!

Come hang out with us next Friday, September 4th for our monthly Coffee Talk Friday. Coffee and donuts provided!

We’d love to hear how your harvests went and your plans for fall!

📍3 N Park Street, St. John, WA 99171
📞509.648.3680
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08/28/2026

https://www.palouselandtrust.org/events-activities/community-forest

Celebrate Idler’s Rest Nature Preserve as Idaho’s first Community Forest recognized by the Old-Growth Forest Network (OGFN)!

08/27/2026

Skywatchers, tonight is a BIG one! If you're keen to spot the Blood Moon, the peak will be tonight at 9:12pm in the Pacific time zone!

08/26/2026

Jaime is attending the Idaho Nonprofit Conference in Boise this week alongside 350 nonprofit professionals doing good work across the Gem State. We are particularly struck by the power of this sector and nonprofit supporters to always unabashedly move forward, even when things are hard, in the face of competing needs, and when there are so many important issues and priorities vying for attention.

Thank you for supporting the lands we all love, and for moving forward with us to create the future we wish to see on the Palouse and across the entire region.

08/25/2026

Did you attend LodgeFest this weekend at the Palouse Divide Nordic Ski Club? Over 600 folks turned out for an amazing inaugural event to celebrate the history, heritage, and future of the lodge.

And speaking of that future, the lodge needs YOUR input. Palouse Divide Lodge has been a mountain-top retreat and Nordic ski destination for more than twenty-five years, and before that a downhill ski destination for 60 years. Its owner is planning to retire, and a group of us are exploring whether the community can find a way to keep the lodge and land accessible, affordable, and protected for community use now and into the future.

Please take the survey here:

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