The 2024 “Design with Wood Competition,” sponsored by the Idaho Forest Products Commission, awarded prizes to architecture students from University of Idaho and Washington State University for their innovative use…
Kindergarten teacher brings her love of the outdoors inside her classroom Wendy Peppersack is native Idahoan and an avid outdoors woman. She loves archery, hunting, fishing, hiking, backpacking, camping and…
Every fall, for the last 27 years, the Idaho Forest Products Commission sponsors an annual Forest Products Week Essay Contest. This year’s submissions were exceptional! “Our judges had a difficult…
Olivia Shan had an idea: she wanted to connect a group of at-risk kids from a north Idaho high school to nature. “We wanted to give the students a way…
To encourage, recognize and support the creative and innovative use of wood in architectural design, the Idaho Forest Products Commission sponsors a Design With Wood Competition for students from the University…
Ann Hewitt’s 5th grade class was recently treated to lessons in forestry with Dr. Dan Miller (who also happens to be Hewitt’s dad) during a forestry tour in the woods…
Affordable housing across the nation and in parts of Idaho is at a crisis level. Half of U.S. renters are living paycheck to paycheck because they’re spending more than 30…
The world’s oldest tree, a 9,550 year old spruce, was recently discovered in Sweden.1 This new-found spindly record holder is old even for a tree… right? Perhaps you are asking:…