Our Work
WE WORK TO PROTECT & RESTORE THE SPOKANE RIVER WITH COMMUNITY CONNECTION
Our Work
WE WORK TO PROTECT & RESTORE THE SPOKANE RIVER WITH COMMUNITY CONNECTION
WE WORK TO PROTECT & RESTORE THE SPOKANE RIVER WITH COMMUNITY CONNECTION
WE WORK TO PROTECT & RESTORE THE SPOKANE RIVER WITH COMMUNITY CONNECTION
We’re excited to announce an important new addition to the Spokane Riverkeeper team! Please join us in welcoming Anne Tenold as our new Development Manager.
For centuries, the Spokane River’s flow has been shaped by a predictable rhythm: snow falling in the mountains during the winter and melting in the spring to sustain the river through the dry summer months. But now, that rhythm is changing, and with it, the future of the river is being rewritten.
This project follows Robert Lester and Braxton Mitchel as they canoed 1300 miles over 55 days from the continental divide to the Pacific Ocean. Starting in Butte Montana, all the way to the Oregon Coast in Astoria. The project follows their long and tough journey while focusing awareness and attention to the health of the river basin and how dramatically the use of the river has changed since the native peoples who lived with and on these waters.
Join us for a family friendly Earth Day river cleanup! We will provide bags and have some pickers and gloves available. Wear good walking shoes and dress for the weather. Wash your hands and don’t forget to bring a reusable water bottle, cleaning up is hard work!
Join the Spokane Riverkeeper for a 90 minute tour of Spokane’s Waste to Energy Facility May 22nd and learn how our trash is turned into energy. This tour includes an orientation, question/answer period and a walking tour of the facility.
A new bill (SB 5712 and companion HB 1937) moving through the Washington Legislature could weaken clean water protections, give polluters a free pass, and strip the Department of Ecology of its ability to enforce industrial stormwater rules. If passed, it would make immediate changes to industrial stormwater management—without any public input.