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<p>North Idaho Maritime works on a project to remove approximately 200 pilings from the Spokane River between Lake Coeur d'Alene and the Post Falls dam as a way improve safety for boaters. The Cougar Bay Osprey Protective Association, Inc. is opposing further removal of log pilings inside Cougar Bay, claiming that those pilings provide nesting areas for osprey and also help maintain the bay's no-wake zone.</p>

<p>North Idaho Maritime works on a project to remove approximately 200 pilings from the Spokane River between Lake Coeur d'Alene and the Post Falls dam as a way improve safety for boaters. The Cougar Bay Osprey Protective Association, Inc. is opposing further removal of log pilings inside Cougar Bay, claiming that those pilings provide nesting areas for osprey and also help maintain the bay's no-wake zone.</p>

November 5, 2010

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Preserving the pilings?
November 5, 2010 9 p.m.

Preserving the pilings?

Osprey group sues in effort to maintain habitat in Cougar Bay

COEUR d'ALENE - Advocates of birds and motorless boats aren't backing down.