Chris Walsh, owner of Revolutionary Realty, locks up an entrance gate on Friday to a property in Athol that is ideal for a prepper, or survivalist. (Jake Parrish/Coeur d'Alene Press)

Feds, liberals and Californians, keep out.

Those words, a photo caption published in the Economist, were draped below the image of a decrepit barn at the base of a North Idaho mountain range.

The prominent, London-based magazine — an international publication with a circulation exceeding 1.5 million — featured Coeur d'Alene and surrounding areas in a 1,400-word piece published Aug. 6.

Its premise: this region is rife with survivalists and political refugees.

In the story "The Last Big Frontier: A movement of staunch conservatives and doomsday-watchers in the Inland Northwest is quietly gaining steam", the Economist's unnamed author interviewed seven locals, including a Coeur d'Alene gunsmith, a Sandpoint pastor and a pistol-toting, liberal-loathing Bonners Ferry woman/Ryan Collingwood, Coeur d'Alene Press. More here.

• The last frontier/Economist

Question: Have you seen the impact of the American Redoubt movement in North Idaho?