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Free programs offered by local outdoor groups


Sandy Nieweg rides through the Cuyahoga Valley National Park near Brecksville, Ohio. The Adventure Cycling Association recently released maps of the last segments of its Underground Railroad Route, which is meant to give riders a route that is representative of the routes escaping slaves took to claim their freedom.
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Sandy Nieweg rides through the Cuyahoga Valley National Park near Brecksville, Ohio. The Adventure Cycling Association recently released maps of the last segments of its Underground Railroad Route, which is meant to give riders a route that is representative of the routes escaping slaves took to claim their freedom. (Associated Press photos / The Spokesman-Review)

Inland Northwest outdoors groups are sponsoring a wide range for free programs this week. Among them:

  • Bicycling the TransAmerica Trail, second of two programs, this one featuring the journey from Pueblo, Colo., to Florence, Oreg.,  by garry Kehr, 6:30 p.m., Monday, at Riverview Retirement Center, for Spokane Bicycle Club.

See map and directions to Riverview Retirement Center auditorium,

  • Clark Fork Delta Restoration, by Susan Drumheller of the Idaho Conservation League, 7 p.m., Tuesday nov. 12 at Lutheran Church of the Master, 4800 N. Ramsey Road in Coeur d’Alene, for Coeur d’Alene Audubon.
  • Annual Fly Auction fundraiser, 7 p.m., at St. Francis School, 1104 W. Heroy, for Spokane Fly Fishers.
  • Hanford and the Columbia River, by Theresa Labriola of the Columbia Riverkeeper, 7:30 p.m., Wednesday, at Riverview Retirement Center, for Spokane Audubon


Rich Landers
Rich Landers joined The Spokesman-Review in 1977. He is the Outdoors editor for the Sports Department writing and photographing stories about hiking, hunting, fishing, boating, conservation, nature and wildlife and related topics.

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