USFS pledges to find solution to funding shortfall

SANDPOINT — The U.S. Forest Service is pledging to leave no stone unturned in a hunt for funding that will enable a Priest Lake campground and day-use site to tie into the Granite Reeder Water & Sewer District system.

The Forest Service helped bankroll the system’s establishment, but Idaho Panhandle National Forests Supervisor Mary Farnsworth said the agency’s recreation budget has steadily declined since the 1990s.

“As of late, it has dramatically gone down about 32 percent in the past three years or so,” said Farnsworth.

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