
The Lands Council During our Fall New Member Drive we recruited 42 new members in two months!!! Thank you to those that either joined The Lands Council as a new member or helped recruit new members.

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A cute, fuzzy beaver is the lead character in a new cartoon short for The Beaver Solution: The Lands Council’s campaign to promote the benefits of restoring beavers in Eastern Washington as an alternative to large new water storage dams in the Columbia River Basin.
You can view the video at: www.landscouncil.org/beaver...solution
Help us get the word out about The Beaver Solution, please share the video!
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Voyage of the Dammed - Nature's engineers -- and environmental heroes -- make a comeback - read the full article at: http://www.landscouncil.org/news/voyage_ of_the_dammed.asp
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Voyage of the Dammed - Nature's engineers -- and environmental heroes -- make a comebackFeature story - From the June 01, 2009 issue of High Country News by Kevin Taylor

The Lands Council Meet Me at the River - Raft and Kayak Passport Series This summer, raft and kayak all or part of the 111-mile Spokane River, from North Idaho College to the confluence of the Upper Columbia! There will be optional side tours to visit dams, restaurants, wi

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Preserving Large Street Trees in Spokane
What: Spokane Preservation Advocates invite you to attend a free lecture given by Dr. Mike Kuhns, Extension Forester from Utah State University. The subject is "How to Fit Large Trees Into Landscapes." Go to,www.spokanepreservation.org/streettre e.asp for details.
When: Thursday, ...June 18th, 7:00 p.m.
Where: Interplayers Theatre, 174 S Howard St, Spokane, WA 99201
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Large canopy-forming street trees are an immensely important part of Spokane's historic neighborhoods. Indeed they are a highlight and important natural infrastructure of this beautiful city. Dr. Kuhns Speaks on Large Tree Landscaping

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Help Protect The Selkirks and Cabinet-Yaak Grizzly Bears!
Your help is needed to advocate for strong protections for grizzly bears. Go to, www.landscouncil.org/alerts for full alert and information on writing a letter to the Forest Service. Comments are due on June 22, 2009. Thank you for taking action!
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Help Protect The Selkirks and Cabinet-Yaak Grizzly Bears!Grizzly bears in the Selkirk Mountains of eastern Washington through the Idaho Panhandle and into the Cabinet Mountains and Yaak River watershed ...

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We had a really successful Ponderosa pine thinning event on Saturday. The weather and incredible hard working effort of all the volunteers made quite a dramatic impact when we finished up. We also had the benefit of an unexpected photographer to record the event – see his photos by clicking the link below!
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A as part of a workday at Sekani Park in Spokane WA organized by the Lands Council with help from the City of Spokane Dept of Urban Forestry, a variety of people volunteer their time & sweat to thin stands of young Ponderosa Pine. ...

The Lands Council Saturday, May 30th Pine-a-palooza Join us in an effort to thin out the dense, small, doghair Ponderosa pines that are revegetating the site. Location: Camp Sekani/Beacon Hill site Time: 9 a.m. - noon Contact Beth Mort at bmort@landscouncil.org or 509-209-

The Lands Council Visit us at ArtFest in the "Make it Art"- family hands-on-art making tent. Where: Coeur d'Alene Park in Browne's Addition When: Friday, May 29th from Noon until 7:00 p.m. Saturday, May 30th from 10:00 a.m. until 6:00 p.m. Sunday,

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Lemonade for TLC - check out this cute story about local kids that wanted to help The Lands Council - they are truly tree huggers in training : ) http://hollisbredeweg.blogspot.com/2009/ 05/dollars-worth-of-hope.html
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You can now view the full version of the documentary "Kids Run Better Unleaded" on The Lands Council's website - http://www.landscouncil.org/water/kids_r un_better_unleaded.asp
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"Kids Run Better Unleaded," is a documentary produced by Community-Minded Television about The Lands Council's work with community partners to reduce childhood lead poisoning.View thefull documentarybelow! (click black square in bottom right corner for full screen view)
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