Idaho: Images of the Gem State

[douglas9]

Idaho is one of the most sparsely populated states in the union, with fewer than 1.8 million residents living on about 83,500 square miles, or about 21 people per square mile. Much of the land is protected protected wilderness area, or held by the U.S. Forest Service. Here are a few glimpses of the landscape of Idaho and some of the wildlife and people calling it home.

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https://www.theatlantic.com/photo/2020/05/idaho-photos/611965/

[montanacowboy]

1. It's a beautiful State

I have traveled every inch of it and skied from Sun Valley to Schweitzer Mountain. Showed horses all across the state and my lifelong best friend lives in Post Falls. It's a shame the politics are so rotten.

[2naSalit]

3. I lived there

for quite a spell but a spat with senator wide-stance kind of ended mt desire to live there... it seems it was a mutual agreement when I left. So I jumped the state line and have been happy in Montana for nearly two decades now.

Beautiful real estate, shitty social climate.

[yonder]

2. Shuhhhhh. The secret's getting out.

[2naSalit]

4. Never tell out of staters

about the FCWRONR. I made that promise after I spent a summer working there.

[yonder]

5. Does that acronym have Refuge or Wildlife Reserve in it?

No need to say what exactly, I'm just trying to get close.

I agree with your other comment: Great landscape and recreational values, dreary red-state politics.

Someday I hope business interests might have to equally share the statehouse with enviromental/recreational interests.

[2naSalit]

6. Nope

but there's one or two of each of those near it. There is a derivative of one of those words in it though, I'm sure you can guess.

The summer I spent there was so divine that I cried all the way home because I didn't want to leave, ever.

[yonder]

7. What a dumbhead -- I must be getting old.

I couldn't come up with the name yesterday but it popped right into the noggin this morning. Thanks for the puzzle.

[2naSalit]

8. You're welcome!

No charge on the weekdays.