advice anyone?

[Count David]

Originally Posted by NW Crow

This is outside central and northern Idaho, but if you want to start from near Boise, right on the WA border from Caldwell north is not very forested til you get to near Midvale.

Ummm......*Oregon border.

[NW Crow]

Thanks for the correction. It was the WA border for most of the central and northern Idaho area I mainly spoke about. I didn't catch my error in referring to the western border as the WA border when I dipped down briefly to discuss what it was like along that border in the southern region in reply to the previous poster's choice to dip down there in their commentary. 1am, missed that, sorry.

[shades_of_idaho]

Midvale is a combination of Forest and Desert. A very nice combination. Can be in the forest in minutes from the desert areas. We are 20 miles from the Oregon border at Annex just out of Weiser.

[TohobitPeak]

Originally Posted by NW Crow

If you start at Bogus Basin and go directly north it is basically all what I would call forested, and consistent with the general description I offered for the bulk of central and northern Idaho. But that is not right on the border. I described the immediate border differently because it is somewhat different. Though I guess not as clearly or detailed as apparently might have been desired.

This is outside central and northern Idaho, but if you want to start from near Boise, right on the WA [correction: substitute "western"] border from Caldwell north has little forest 'til you get to near Midvale.

Once you get up into central Idaho and a bit below Lewiston is not very forested on at least half of the immediate border area north to the Rathdrum prairie, different from the rather solid forest it is further east. I mentioned it at all because it might perhaps be significant to the original poster if she selected to live in Lewiston, in that less forested border region, less forested to the immediate south and north of town and to the west and not heavily forested to the very immediate east either.

But the picture should be clearer by now.

Originally Posted by NW Crow

Thanks for the correction. It was the WA border for most of the central and northern Idaho area I mainly spoke about. I didn't catch my error in referring to the western border as the WA border when I dipped down briefly to discuss what it was like along that border in the southern region in reply to the previous poster's choice to dip down there in their commentary. 1am, missed that, sorry.

Thanks for your explanation, you obviously know a lot about Idaho as I do, but I was not questioning your remarks but just chiming in with some information I thought would be usefull since discussion of this thread has turned towards the flora and forests of the state and that Southern Idaho and the mountainess area adjacent to Boise has forests that extend up into North Idaho. Like you said, Lewiston is in a dryer area but a quick drive east will put a person in forests of the Clearwater region.

My understanding is that emiliec was asking about the state as a whole, not just the Lewiston area or North Idaho so that is why I offered my input in case emiliec were to consider Boise as an option.

[NW Crow]

My apologies. I read and replied to your remarks in the context of what I said and the other dialog that followed about adjustments to it to cover the topic with greater precision. You took steps to go outside that direct line but at the time I still saw it in that line. I realized later I might have been wrong about that and perhaps the pitch of my reply, but that was after I was already "down river" further.

Your reply and my original post hit some of the same points, but hearing different voices has value as does seeing both points of agreement and difference. You added details about the Boise area and other things that should be helpful for the original poster. So did the others.

[emiliec]

thanks for all the input, i have only been out of state one time so i haven't seen much of anything and i am interested in any information i can get because i don't know where i would fit but definately know what i am looking for