RESTORING A WATERSHED
As part of a
cooperative effort to restore Idaho and Washington’s polluted
Spokane-Coeur d’Alene watershed, the Sierra Club has created a
colorful map of the drainage. The region needs help: mining has
left pollution and aquifer contamination; logging and farming have
eroded soil. The group’s advice includes cleaning up mine wastes,
preventing further agricultural pollution, and preserving the
remaining old-growth forests. Conservation groups throughout the
region hope the map will draw attention to the watershed, whose
heart is Lake Coeur d’Alene. For a copy of the “Go With the Flow”
map, contact the Upper Columbia River Sierra Club, P.O. Box 413,
Spokane, WA 99210
(509/456-3834).
This article appeared in the print edition of the magazine with the headline Restoring a watershed.
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