FLSRV News

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

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

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

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

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...

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

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

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...

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...

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

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...

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

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...

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

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

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...

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

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

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