The Urban Outdoors
Art Gone Wild
When was the last time a landscape spoke to you? Were you marveling at the fields of balsamroot in Riverside State Park? Holding your breath ...
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Letter What? Letterboxing Provides New Way to Experience Familiar Spaces
Adventure. New places. Family fun. Creativity. If any of that sounds enticing, it might be a great time to start letterboxing. No, this isn’t what ...
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The Mystery of the Council Circle
Did the floods roil over it? Or did a forklift just plop it in place? Has it always been there? Or, as one Spokane West ...
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The Cooper’s Hawks of Comstock Park
By the time you read this, the family of Cooper’s Hawks at Comstock Park have been basking in warmer climes for some time. “Snowbirds” like ...
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No Space, No Problem: Starting an Urban Garden
The urban agriculture and urban farming movements have taken off. Some use vacant lots to start community gardens for personal use or food bank donations, ...
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People’s Park: An Oasis of Nature Near Downtown Spokane
For thousands of years people have enjoyed the little peninsula upstream from the confluence of Latah Creek and the Spokane River. The name “People’s Park” ...
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Help Count City Birds in the Middle of Winter
It’s All Part of the Spokane Christmas Bird Count Fun Sunday morning, December 27, will find 60 or so muffled, mittened, rosy-cheeked and bright-eyed folks ...
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Finding Fall Colors at Finch Arboretum
The Finch Arboretum is a 10-star public park on a four-star scale. No doubt, Manito Park, Riverfront Park and the Dishman Hills Conservancy are also ...
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Jess Walter: The Urban Outdoors
I’VE BEEN WRITING THIS urban outdoors column for about a year now and it is with a heavy heart and a blood alcohol level of ...
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