FLSRV News

Mar 30, 2023

Friends of the Little Spokane River Annual Hike with Jack Nisbet — The Quarry

The Spokane Conservation District has moved their headquarters to the former quarry and yard of Spokane Concrete, a 50-acre haven just...

The Creation of the Haynes Conservation Area

Ty Brown

Nov 15, 2022

The Creation of the Haynes Conservation Area

Around 1950, Edward and Eloise Haynes purchased nearly 90 acres of land along the Little Spokane River. The property was situated between...

Robert Hylton

Jan 21, 2022

Summer Salmon Swim Again

On Friday, August 6, Spokane Tribal Fisheries released 51 adult Chinook salmon into the Little Spokane River at the Waikiki Springs...

Robert Hylton

Jan 19, 2022

2022 FLSRV Hike With Jack Nisbet

Saturday, April 30 TRAUTMAN RANCH Trautman Ranch is a 275-acre Spokane County Conservation Area located between two disjunctive parcels...

Tina Wynecoop

Jan 18, 2022

In the Stream

Tina Wynecoop It is good to look back on what might have seemed on the surface to be a very quiet 2021 for FLSRV. The pandemic had not...

Oldest Business in the Valley: The Colbert Trading Company

Kirk Neumann

Jan 16, 2022

Oldest Business in the Valley: The Colbert Trading Company

by Kirk Neumann In 1885 the Colbert Trading company was originally built as the general store and post office for the town of Dragoon....

Robert Hylton

Dec 21, 2020

A Little History of a Road

Recently a very old hand-painted sign, Shady Slope, which was nailed to a conifer has disappeared. Locals are wondering what happened to...

Robert Hylton

Dec 5, 2020

Jack Nisbet’s 8th Annual Walking Tour

Hog Lake Saturday, April 25, 2021 • 9:30am-12:30pm We will try for this tour with Jack Nisbet. We will keep you posted early spring of...

Robert Hylton

Jan 20, 2020

Jack Nisbet’s 8th Annual Walking Tour

Hog Lake Sunday, April 26, 2020 9:30 am-12:30 pm Join us for a morning hike through pine woodlands and open shrub- steppe to a classic...

Ice Skating in the Little Spokane River Valley

Robert Hylton

Feb 9, 2019

Ice Skating in the Little Spokane River Valley

by Ty Brown Before Wandermere Golf Course was even in existence, the lake on the property was known for its winter pastime of ice...

Murder at Greenleaf Farm: The Tragic Downfall of Theodore Cushing and His Ties to Francis H. Cook an

Robert Hylton

Nov 5, 2018

Murder at Greenleaf Farm: The Tragic Downfall of Theodore Cushing and His Ties to Francis H. Cook an

by Ty Brown Theodore Cushing arrived on the west coast from Chicago and made his home in Portland, Oregon, in the summer of 1883. While a...

Jack Nisbet’s and FLSRV’s Sixth Annual Walking Tour: Lower Hangman/Latah Creek April 29,

Robert Hylton

May 17, 2018

Jack Nisbet’s and FLSRV’s Sixth Annual Walking Tour: Lower Hangman/Latah Creek April 29,

by Tina Wynecoop Near Peaceful Valley, below Spokane Falls, a tributary joins the Spokane River. And thirty-three humans and one very...

Robert Hylton

Oct 17, 2016

“Don’t tell my wife about this!”

by Tina Wynecoop This summer I read with interest a report by Jim Camden in The Spokesman Review about a jet plane crash in the Colville...

Robert Hylton

Oct 17, 2015

List of resources re: Salmon/Upper Columbia River Basin:

Robert Hylton

Jul 10, 2015

Wandermere

By Dan Webster … Courtesy of Spokesman Review The Spokane Indians that lived for generations in and around the Little Spokane River...

Robert Hylton

Nov 17, 2014

Pioneer of Our Valley

by Dana Davis Kelly Nicette Davis, our mother and one of the oldest residents of the Little Spokane Valley, quietly passed away August...

Robert Hylton

Jun 17, 2014

What Was In Grandpa’s Trunk

By Harla Jean Heiser Biever Being an only child I became sole heir to my Grandparent’s home in Chadron, Nebraska, when my mother passed...

Robert Hylton

Apr 17, 2013

Postmarks

by Tina Wynecoop River valleys are composed of biologic, geologic, and cultural wonders. Our own Little Spokane River Valley is no...

Cottonwood Trees in North Spokane County

Robert Hylton

Nov 17, 2012

Cottonwood Trees in North Spokane County

by W.G. Magnuson In 1883 the Dart pioneer family established a small community that is now called Dartford. Dartford is just North of...

Robert Hylton

Apr 17, 2009

Readings about our Little Spokane River Valley

There is a scattered ‘library’ of lore about our area. Fortunately, we are gathering materials and creating a bibliography so that the...

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