Bonner County Sportsmen Association celebrates 90 years

The Bonner County Sportsmen Association — which works to improve and enhance fish and wildlife habitats as well as protect fishing and hunting in the Idaho Panhandle — is celebrating its 90th year in North Idaho.

Members of the association are commemorating almost 100 years by revisiting milestones to highlight how far the organization has come, from as far back as when the “association” was merely just a few locals interested in area fish and wildlife.

In August 1919, the Pend d’Oreille Fish and Game Protective Association developed from a small group of people to an official organization. In 1920, the devotees of the rod and gun club met and formed the nucleus for the sportsmen’s group that North Idaho knows today. They would vote for Earl Farmin as their first president.