Archive for the ‘idaho’ Category

Lawn chair balloonist achieves his dream - Weird news- msnbc.com

Saturday, July 5th, 2008

Gas station owner Kent Couch has realized his dream of flying a lawn chair rigged with more than 150 helium-filled party balloons across the Oregon high desert to Idaho.Read the full story

So much talk about so few fish

Tuesday, April 15th, 2008

The salmon fisheries of the Northwest have spawned a new industry of bureaucrats, lawyers, environmentalists, sport fishers, commercial interests, scientists, and natives, all focused on the absence of fish. Meanwhile, four sockeye returned last summer to a lake in Idaho once teeming with tens of thousands.Read the full story