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Mon., Feb. 16, 2015

Video: top 50 favorite things about NW rivers

A wild steelhead takes a shot at jumping over Selway Falls. A fish ladder is available should fish need it. (Steve Hanks Lewiston Tribune)

RIVERS -- Streams in the region are running big after a record-setting spree of 50-degree days. Spokane Falls is running huge... check it out. Meanwhile road crews are fixing wash outs. Kayakers are smitten. Steelhead are getting the prompt to finish unfinished business.

Rivers are important, as this cute 3-minute American Rivers video gently suggests.

Posted Feb. 16, 2015, 6:07 a.m.

Rich Landers writes and photographs stories and columns for a wide range of outdoors coverage, including Outdoors feature sections on Sunday and Thursday.

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