OUR GEM: Re-MEMBER-ing the Kootenai Environmental Alliance

Over the last 50 years, Kootenai Environmental Alliance (KEA) has been a leader in environmental activism, advocacy, and education in conserving, protecting and restoring North Idaho. When it comes to Our Gem, KEA has been and will continue to be a voice for Coeur d’Alene Lake and all the water resources of this wonderful part of the country.

As with many nonprofits, we have had our ups and downs through COVID, staff changes, decreases in grant funding and the many challenges every grassroots non-profit faces. Thanks to the dedication of former board members, (many from the original group of volunteers), partnerships in our community, and help from passionate community members we are building KEA's future for the next 50 years, beginning with a reinstatement of the original membership organization structure.