If you hike or ride a bike or horse on the many miles of trails in the Inland Northwest, then you are the perfect candidate for a Washington Trails Association volunteer trail project. Trail building and maintenance is fun and rewarding, and most volunteers leave with a new appreciation for the effort that goes into […]
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Learn more about the financial side of State Parks and other related policies at the upcoming Commission meeting and work session in March. OLYMPIA – March 13, 2013 – At its regular meeting next week in Olympia, the Washington State Parks and Recreation Commission will consider adoption of a transformation strategy intended to provide guidance into
Wild foods are not as large or uniform as their supermarket counterparts, but they often contain higher nutritional value—and hold up better in the kitchen, according to “Wildman” Steve Brill, author of Identifying and Harvesting Edible and Medicinal Plants in Wild and Not-So-Wild Places and The Wild Vegan Cookbook. Many vegetables look bigger in the
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Thirty-eight students earned superior awards for their environmental science projects at the 14th annual Spokane Youth Environmental Conference, held on May 24, 2011, at Spokane Community College. Over 170 middle and high school students showcased their environmental science projects during oral presentations or poster sessions. Projects examined environmental science topics chosen by the
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A teenage boy went whitewater rafting down the Spokane River for the first time last month. Right before they hit a rapid, he freaked out and yelled to be let off the raft. Usually, the raft would continue downriver. The kid would be expected to play tough. This time, though, the group pulled over to
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Position Title: Education and Outreach Coordinator (1 Position) Project Sponsor: City of Spokane – Urban Forestry Division This position is in partnership with the Northwest Service Academy (NWSA), an AmeriCorps program of ESD112. NWSA’s mission is to preserve and restore the natural environment, and to develop community leaders through service and community partnerships. Project Location:
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Rich Leon sent us this notification of the passing of Wakin’ Jim Stoltz:
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Outdoor Medical Emergency Handbook – First Aid For Travelers, Backpackers, Adventurers Dr. Spike Briggs & Dr. Campbell Mackenzie Firefly Books, 2010, 244 pages. This book isn’t for the family heading out to the lake or the couple heading out there for a few days of backpacking. After the Table of Contents and Introduction, there’s a
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Anna Lappé is a national best-selling author who addresses sustainability in our everyday lives. In 2001, Lappé founded the Small Planet Institute (www.smallplanet.org) along with her mother, Francis Moore Lappé (author of Diet for a Small Planet, originally published in 1971). “At the Small Planet Institute, we seek to identify the core, often unspoken, assumptions
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The Weekender Effect: Hyperdevelopment in Mountain Towns Robert W. Sandford, Rocky Mountain Books, 2008, 115 pages From the opening paragraphs to the closing sentence, The Weekender Effect focuses on the sense of place as a critical component of human communities. Through Sandford’s trained eye we see how maintaining the elements of “place” common to a
