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KLT Awarded Grant for Remote Monitoring
Increasingly, land trusts are discovering the power of bolstering their stewardship toolkits with new technologies and perspectives. Remote monitoring has helped stewardship teams and landowners gain new perspectives on their work, respond quickly to threats to conserved land and work more efficiently to uphold the promise of protecting land in perpetuity.
Bonner County Daily Bee: Kaniksu Land Trust, Washington Elementary partner for outdoor education
On a damp, overcast Wednesday afternoon, Kaniksu Land Trust Educational Director Dave Kretzschmar led a group of fifth and sixth graders from Washington Elementary down the pine-covered pathways at Pine Street Woods in Sandpoint.
The children chatted, laughed and played games as the group hiked. At one point, Kretzschmar stopped, eyes turned upward as he looked at the trees.
“You see how those trees are stripped of wood?” he said, pointing upward.
The Reader: Pine Street Woods earns national award
For Katie Cox, executive director of Kaniksu Land Trust, any recognition for the success of the Pine Street Woods project belongs to the community that made it happen. That would include a prestigious national award.
The Reader: Teaming up for outdoor education
Let’s be honest: most students are more than happy to spend a part of their school day outside the classroom, learning about what makes our natural paradise so great here in North Idaho. With Kaniksu Land Trust’s help, the Lake Pend Oreille School District No. 84 is hoping to make outdoor education a permanent reality.