A aerial photo of the site location of the North Lake Development at the mouth of Trestle Creek. The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers advised in late September that it was revoking its permit for the Idaho Club’s marina and lakeside housing development at the mouth of Trestle Creek on Lake Pend Oreille.
April 24, 2022
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Feds: Marina permit remains suspended
Officials with the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers said a permit for the Idaho Club’s proposed Trestle Creek development will remain suspended. The area contains critical kokanee and bull trout habitat. The permit was suspended in August 2021 while Corps officials reinitiated consultation with the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, in accordance with the Endangered Species Act. The creek accounts for more than half of the annual bull trout spawning sites in the Pend Oreille Basin, a species protected as threatened under the Endangered Species Act.
Marina permit to be revoked by U.S. Army
The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers has advised local conservation groups that it plans to revoke its permit for the Idaho Club’s marina and lakeside housing development at the mouth of Trestle Creek on Lake Pend Oreille. The creek accounts for more than half of the annual bull trout spawning sites in the Pend Oreille Basin, a species protected as threatened under the Endangered Species Act. A 2019 permit authorized work on the Idaho Club Trestle Creek Marina, with Corps officials saying permit authorization did not extend to other portions of the project because a sufficient connection between these activities and activity requiring a Corps permit was not found.
Advocates to sue feds to protect bull trout
Conservation groups allege the Corps violated two sections of the Endangered Species Act and a section of the Clean Water Act in the permitting process of the Idaho Club's planned marina.
Lawsuit challenges marina, housing development
Approval of a marina and housing development near bull trout habitat in the Trestle Creek wetlands spawned a lawsuit by two conservation groups Thursday. In the lawsuit filed in U.S. District Court, the Center for Biological Diversity and Idaho Conservation League said the approval of the Hope area project threatens the federally protected trout in one of its most critical habitats.
Commissioners approve North Lake development changes
Opponents concerned development could hurt bull trout habitat
Commission OKs changes to marina, housing project
Critics say project will damage important bull trout habitat
The Bonner County Zoning Commission voted Thursday by split decision to approve three changes to the planned unit development on 24.4-acres owned by Valiant Idaho, LLC, and William Haberman.