Farm, ranch life on the Rathdrum Prairie
Kerri Thoreson
Recently, I realized that changing landscape can be disorienting when landmarks implanted in our brain no longer exist. I’ve lived here since Post Falls was fewer than 5,000 people and the Rathdrum Prairie between Post Falls, Rathdrum and Coeur d’Alene was 100 square miles of blue grass and hay fields. Now, when I travel Prairie Avenue it’s quite different. Not bad, just different. There are still farmers’ fields, a barn or two but certainly not open prairie as far as the eye can see. Roundabouts? We’d never even heard of such a thing a couple of decades ago.
I also recall in the late 1980s, there would be a day when it would take a couple of hours for hundreds of sheep to be herded on Poleline Avenue from winter to summer pastures. It was a big deal and fun to witness.
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