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Caption on image: No 1 Bird's Eye View Bonners Ferry Idaho. Bonners Ferry was founded in northern Idaho in 1893 near an existing ferry over the Kootenai River. It first served as a supply station for the mines to the north but later became an important center for the timber and farming industries. The area surrounding Bonners Ferry is sometimes ...
Bonners Ferry (Kutenai language: ʔaq̓anqmi [4]) is the largest city in and the county seat of Boundary County, Idaho, United States. [5] The population was 2,543 at the 2010 census . The Porthill-Rykerts Border Crossing connects Bonners Ferry with Creston, British Columbia , Canada, on the Kootenay River .
The Ruby Ridge standoff was the siege of a cabin occupied by the Weaver family in Boundary County, Idaho, in August 1992.On August 21, deputies of the United States Marshals Service (USMS) came to arrest Randy Weaver under a bench warrant for his failure to appear on federal firearms charges.
The Idaho panhandle—locally known as North Idaho, Northern Idaho, or simply the Panhandle—is a salient region of the U.S. state of Idaho encompassing the state's 10 northernmost counties: Benewah, Bonner, Boundary, Clearwater, Idaho, Kootenai, Latah, Lewis, Nez Perce, and Shoshone (though the southern part of the region is sometimes referred to as North Central Idaho).
It is about 20 miles (32 km) from the Canada–United States border and 5 miles (8.0 km) from the town of Bonners Ferry. It is bordered by the Selkirk Mountains to the west, the Kootenai River to the east, and state lands to the south. The refuge provides diverse habitat types, especially wetlands and hardwood and coniferous forest.
Fry's Trading Post, near Bonners Ferry, Idaho, was built in 1876. It has also been known as Bonner-Fry Trading Post. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1983. [1] It was described in its NRHP nomination as a 1 + 1 ⁄ 2-story log building. [2] The facility was destroyed by fire. [3]
In Klein’s case, a Postal Service spokeswoman said, the problem is the road. Hillman Ridge is paved but narrows to a width slightly larger than a pickup truck as it approaches Klein’s property.
The Idaho Panhandle National Forests are a jointly administered set of three national forests located mostly in the U.S. state of Idaho.In 1973, major portions of the Kaniksu, Coeur d'Alene, and St. Joe National Forests were combined to be administratively managed as the Idaho Panhandle National Forests (IPNF).