Nature
Finding Camas Flowers
Each spring the wet meadows of the Pend Oreille River Valley explode with the purple-blue blooms of one the regions’ most culturally important plants, common camas. Common ...
Adam Gebauer
July 27, 2020
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Wildlife Travels
The movement of wildlife is crucial to their survival. Salmon travel from the ocean to the river to spawn, field mice scurry along hedgerows to avoid predation, and caribou traverse thousands of miles to search for wintering grounds. ...
Adam Gebauer
June 23, 2020
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Wildlife Origins of COVID-19
If animals become too crowded, they can more easily spread viral and bacterial diseases. This can become exasperated when humans artificially crowd animals, particularly bringing a large variety of ...
Adam Gebauer
June 23, 2020
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Tips for Documenting Nature
Many people have a Life List of all the birds they have seen. Others keep field journals denoting all the wildlife and plant species they ...
Adam Gebauer
April 30, 2020
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Documenting the American White Pelican
The Spokane region is near a major flyway for many waterfowl species flying from their winter grounds to summer breeding areas. One of the best ...
Adam Gebauer
April 30, 2020
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The Slow Clean Up of Midnite Mine
Just 45 miles down stream from Spokane sits Midnite Mine, a former uranium mine within the Spokane Tribe of Indians Reservation. Most of us are ...
Adam Gebauer
April 15, 2020
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2020 Tundra Swan Festival Canceled
Editor’s Note: Like many other events in the Northwest, the 2020 Tundra Swan Festival held annually in Northeast Washington near Cusick has been canceled due ...
Out There Outdoors
March 16, 2020
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Dancing with Sandhill Cranes
Editor’s Note: The 2020 Othello Sandhill Cran Festival has been canceled due to the Coronavirus outbreak, however individuals can still view the birds on their ...
Adam Gebauer
January 22, 2020
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Learning How To Bird
It’s true; I could have lived out my days in birding ignorance. There is no universal obligation to know the names of birds. There are ...
Out There Outdoors
January 4, 2020
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