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Little Spokane River Guided Hike
Join us for a spring hike to discuss the ecology and cultural history of the area. WHEN: Saturday, May 9 @ 9am WHERE: Knothead Trail Parking Lot- 5640 W. Rutter Parkway TERRAIN: unpaved, hilly trail PARKING: Discover Pass required – www.discoverpass.wa.gov Dress for the weather and bring drinking water! Not permitted: dogs, strollers, bicycles. Questions? Please contact Kara Frashefski at 509-505-7721 or kara.frashefski@parks.wa.gov RIVERSIDE STATE PARK Learn more...
Read MoreBCHS Membership Meeting Presentation: Birds
Tuesday, April 28th 5:00pm at The Hive, 207 N First Avenue, Sandpoint Join the BCHS Board of Trustees at the Annual Membership Meeting at the Hive. BCHS Members’ presence is cordially requested, and the meeting is free and open to the public. Join for our 2025 annual report and updates from the Board. We are thrilled to announce the meeting will be followed by a presentation by Jack Nisbet, author of several collections of essays that explore the human and natural history of the Northwest, as well as award-winning biographies of cartographer David Thompson (Sources of the River) naturalist David Douglas (The Collector), and John and Carrie Leiberg (The Dreamer and the...
Read MoreEarth Fest 2026
The U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service (Service), with the support of The Lands Council, will be hosting their annual Earth Fest event at Turnbull National Wildlife Refuge (Refuge) on Saturday, April 25 as a celebration of Earth Day. Like previous years, this event is a collaborative effort which focuses on shared mission priorities including conservation, habitat enhancement, and community engagement. Earth Fest is a stewardship-focused event and invites public participation from all ages. Attendees will assist with potting bare-root trees for future restoration projects, working to remove exclusionary fencing from around previous years’ plantings, and new for this...
Read More‘Train Dreams’ movie and discussion coming to the Panida
Movie and book fans will have a chance to see the Oscar-nominated movie Train Dreams on the big screen, when the Panida Theater shows the film on March 13 in an event that will include a discussion of the movie and the book it was adapted from. The book and film are of special interest locally. Train Dreams is set around the turn of the 20th century in the Inland Northwest, in the era when the railroads and logging were the major industries. Much of the story takes place along the Moyie River – in the book spelled as a historical variant, the Moyea – where railroad and timber laborer Robert Grainier builds a remote cabin and attempts to retreat to a life with his...
Read MoreKYRS: Earth Matters Now
On Tuesday, January 27, 2026, Jack joined Nick Jeffries, the Wildland Resource Planner for the City of Spokane, on KYRS’s Earth Matters Now! for a two-hour conversation about fire on the Inland Northwest landscape. Hosted by Laura Ackerman and Mike Peterson, this episode can now be accessed as a podcast by going to https://archive.kyrs.org/ and scrolling down to the 12:00-2:00 pm time slot for January 27th. You can also download it by clicking...
Read More2025 Updates
Jack continues to lead walks for various organizations around the Spokane area. Since many of these excursions have a short lead time, the best way to find out about them is to get on our mailing list by sending an email request on the Contact Page. Jack has also completed a pair of visual essays for HistoryLink.org that explore tribal use of fire on the landscape around the period of contact—one for east of the Cascades, one for the west side. You can view them at https://historylink.org/File/23302 https://historylink.org/File/23301 Upcoming dates to note: Fort Colvile Summit October 18, 2025: 10AM-3PM Mistequa Hotel and Casino Register and learn more here Jack...
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