Want to get involved with the Northwest Whitewater Association? If you have class III skills and a boat meet up with them this Friday. They are also selling Idaho boat stickers. See below: Friday Night Floats Continue This Week: The long-standing tradition of weekly floats on the lower Spokane River begins again, weather & water […]
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Brian Burns hits the river. // Photo courtesy NWWA It must be spring if the Northwest Whitewater Association has started up Friday Night Floats on the Spokane River. You need solid skills and you must RSVP. Here’s the scoop: Friday Night Floats Start This Week, May 1: The long-standing tradition of weekly floats on the
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Will bill 6036 negatively impact fish on the Spokane River? The legislature is considering a bill that would extend pollutions control compliance in the Spokane River by ten years. River advocates contend if the state takes this action the river will be more polluted and the Federal Lawsuit under the Clean Water Act is all
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That’s the crux of Friends of the Falls Director Steve Faust’s River Greenway District proposal. Right now most facets of the Spokane River and the recreation associated with it suffer from some degree of active or benign neglect. Are we will to pony up to make this area world-class? This piece appears in the current
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Pontoon Boat on the Spokane River. // Photo Jeff Ferguson. This just in from the Northwest Whitewater Association: With river levels coming down (24,300 at of 6-16) we plan to resume Friday floats. It’s still BIG and full of hydraulics so you need to have good boating skills. Make sure you have at least wet
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Family Rafting on the Spokane River Terry Bain IF YOU’RE ANYTHING like me, you look at Spokane River downtown and think, “Oh, nice river.” You take out-of-town visitors to Riverfront or Riverside State Park, and they take pictures. How often do you actually interact with the river? Most of us probably spend a scant few
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