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RIMROCK TO RIVERSIDE: MAKING CONNECTIONS

A Red-tailed Hawk lifts off from his perch in a ponderosa pine in Kendall Yards on the edge of downtown Spokane. He soars and glides for a full 11 miles, all the way through Indian Canyon, Palisades Park, and Riverside State Park. After pausing on a bluff in Palisades Park to peer down at the city of Spokane, he continues on, to land on a granite cliff at the end of Riverside State Park. Sharing t...

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PALISADES NW: PARTNER IN CONSERVATION

An exceptionally dedicated, enthusiastic group with a sustained stewardship calling, Palisades NW members have a significant role in the Rimrock to Riverside project. Legally known as just “Palisades,” this nonprofit 501(c)(3) organization is open to anyone with an interest in Palisades Park. Although most of the members live near the park, many are from elsewhere in the Spokane area. The group cu...

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ANGELS MAKE CONSERVATION HAPPEN

Conservation angels are local people who love the land and have found a creative way to protect it from development.

Connecting Palisades and Riverside Parks would be but a fantasy without the incredible generosity of these forward-thinking people who bought some of the key parcels connecting the two parks and are holding them until they can become part of Palisades Park.

The conservation angels are...

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Olmsted 2.0: Rimrock to Riverside

Rimrock to Riverside is the first major project in INLC’s “Olmsted 2.0” initiative, a conservation vision for future parklands in Spokane County in the next 100 years.

Just as the original Olmsted project in 1907 laid out a master park plan for the city of Spokane (that included revising Manito Park, and creating Riverfront Park), Olmsted 2.0 creates a blueprint of important properties to preserve...

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Creature Feature: Hairy Woodpecker

Here in Eastern Washington and North Idaho we have two species of woodpecker so similar they are easily misidentified: the Hairy Woodpecker and the Downy Woodpecker.

They frequent the same habitats—forests, woodlands, and shade trees—and are similarly colored and patterned with white-spotted black wings, white undersides, and black and white striping on their heads.

The Hairy Woodpecker is the large...

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Paying Our Rent to Earth - Kris Tompkins

Inland Northwest Conservancy is pleased to bring Kris Tompkins to Spokane for her presentation “Paying Our Rent to the Earth” on the creation of national parks and the importance of taking action to protect the places you love.

Ms. Tompkins will speak Friday, May 31 at the Hemmingson Auditorium on the Gonzaga Campus. Doors open at 5:15, the presentation begins at 5:30. Proceeds from this event bene...

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