<p>Long-time Blue Creek area resident Loretta Babka stands on a primitive horse riding and hiking trail Tuesday afternoon in the Wallace L. Forest Conservation Area in Coeur d'Alene. To the dismay of local residents such as Zabka, Bureau of Land Management is proposing building parking lots, a mountain bike course and maintained hiking and horse riding trails through the area and Blue Creek Bay.</p>
September 14, 2016
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September 14, 2016 9 p.m.
Blue Creek Bay plan riles residents
BLM to hold meeting on proposed 751-acre conservation area
Some residents in the Blue Creek Bay area of Lake Coeur d'Alene are concerned a proposal to make recreation improvements on a 751-acre conservation area will ruin the rural character of the site.