Autumn is the season best savored perhaps by creative writers, bird watchers and carefree nature lovers. Nineteenth-century writer William Cullen Bryant referred to this season as “the year’s last, loveliest smile,” and novelist Albert Camus said, “Autumn is a second spring where every leaf is a flower.” Crisp mornings with frost, clothed in layers for […]
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Conservation Northwest and the Lands Council are showing a documentary on people and predators coexisting, followed by discussion by a panel including Suzanne Stone of Defenders of Wildlife and Carter Niemeyer, formerly of the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service. They will discuss the controversy that’s recently arisen as Idaho and Montana began to sell permits
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The Washington State Trails Association is doing some outreach to the Spokane area. They have some cool trail work parties coming up. Here’s the details on their upcoming Spokane meeting: Get to Know the Washington Trails Association Thursday June 25, 7-8 P.M. at REI Find out about WTA’s Hiking Trail Advocacy and Trail Maintenance Work
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Image courtesy of ROW Adventures. Congratulations to Coeur d’Alene’s ROW Adventures. Here’s the details in a press release: COEUR D’ALENE, Idaho- On March 30th, President Obama signed the Public Lands Omnibus Bill into law, protecting 517,000 acres and 315 miles of Wild and Scenic Rivers on the Owyhee River and canyons. With this news, Outside
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As a kid growing up in Medical Lake, Washington, Shawn Graves wasn’t much different than his buddies. As a self-described “outdoors type person”, he used to love to to ski, snowmobile, hike and fish. Just about anything that would get him outside. “Now,” he says, “I can’t do anything like that alone for fear of
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You may remember the intense discussion we had about the YMCA sale to Spokane Parks for a STEEP $4.5 million. If not read here. It’s a terrible idea. And I’m not the only one that feels this way. Check out Barb Chamberlain’s thoughts here. I wrote an editorial strongly opposed to this sale. The whole
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An Interview with Paddling Washington Co-Author Rich Landers Melting snow packs, flooding rivers, and even the future of our city’s summer time falls have many local paddlers thinking about water and itching to dust off our boats once again. For those of you who’ve learned to never head off for a float without Rich Lander’s
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Steve Rumsey, of North Columbia Monthly, sends us this advisory: Spring Mushroom Hike at the Little Pend Oreille National Wildlife Refuge Mycologist Jim Groth will lead a one-day mushroom foray on Saturday, May 17, on the Little Pend Oreille National Wildlife Refuge. Emphasis will be on collecting morels for the table, but also included will
SPOKANE WAS NOT UNLIKE hundreds of other cities and towns at the time that discovered the rivers that ran through them were a tremendous source of waterpower. Now, despite the efforts to harness the river-which Avista Utilities and its predecessor Washington Water Power did a thorough job of by placing a half-dozen dams along its
Got this in my inbox yesterday, forwarded from the FIRC, purportedly from Spokane City Parks and Rec: April 1, 2008 To: The citizens of Spokane; RE Squirrel mating season Thank you in advance for extending me the courtesy of writing you in the collective to make this note speedy and a big thank-you to our
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