Curious about the apples in your yard? There's a website for that.

Since he retired from a law enforcement career, Dave Benscoter has developed a passion in finding heritage apple species.

Now, he and Keokee Books in Sandpoint have developed a tool they hope will help them find more lost apples in our region. They’ve created a website, LostApples.wiki .

This interview edited slightly for clarity and brevity.

Dave Benscoter: What we try to do there is first of all, let people know about Lost Apples, what they are, and then also provide a way to get a hold of one of our committee people and either come take a look at their orchard or if it's outside of our driving distance, we'll send them instructions on how to send apples to us. And that's really the first step is to find these old homestead orchards and then try to identify the apples in the orchar