CX3 - Community × Coldwater × Conservation

Conservation Tour Breakfast Buffet
2023-09-28 07:00 - 08:45 (America/Los_Angeles) | Centennial Hotel, 303 W North River Dr, Spokane, WA, 99201, United States
7 a.m. to 8:45 a.m. in the Centennial Hotel’s Riverfront B&C Rooms.
All registered guests are welcome to sit-down for a hearty breakfast and coffee anytime between 7 and 8:45 a.m.
For those headed out fishing, boxed lunches will be provided at the breakfast. For those headed out on the conservation tour to the Snake River Dams, lunch will be packed in the busses for you.

Snake River Conservation Tour
2023-09-28 08:30 - 16:30
The Snake River Basin represents the coldest, most undisturbed habitat in the Lower 48 for salmon and steelhead. The time is now for the Snake. Removing the four lower Snake River dams would return 140 miles of habitat to a free-flowing river and recover wild salmon and steelhead in the basin.

Unless we take bold action to change the current trajectory, these fish will continue to decline – and eventually go extinct.

During your visit to Spokane for CX3, join Trout Unlimited staff on a trip to Lower Granite Dam on the Snake River to learn about the impacts of the dams in-person. The trip will include a guided tour of the dam from the Army Corps of Engineers, with stops at the fish ladder, fish counting station, smolt bypass system, and the earthen portion of the dam. TU staff will provide insight into how each of these components impact returns of salmon and steelhead and dive into the details of dam removal.

Before we return to Spokane, we’ll also visit the McCoy Rail Terminal to learn about rail as a transportation alternative for shipping of grain throughout the region.

To learn more about the lower Snake before your tour, visit https://www.tu.org/lowersnake/.

Additional tour details:
Please wear long pants, closed toe walking shoes/boots, and shirts with sleeves. Tour participants will also be required to wear hard hats provided by the Army Corps for a portion of the tour.
Unfortunately, the Army Corps is unable to host foreign nationals at Department of Defense facilities including Lower Granite Dam.

Naturalist tour of the Spokane River
2023-09-30 15:00 - 17:00 | Centennial Hotel, 303 W North River Dr, Spokane, WA, 99201, United States
Local naturalist extraordinaire, Jack Nisbet, will lead a hike/walk from People’s Park for two to three miles round-trip. The hike is along gravel trails but there is some uneven footing. Transportation to People’s Park will be available from the Centennial.
Spokane-based writer Jack Nisbet is the author of several collections of essays that explore the human and natural history of the Columbia Plateau. He has also written award-winning biographies of fur agent David Thompson (Sources of the River) and naturalist David Douglas (The Collector). These two early visitors to the region provided original information about the variety and tribal management of fish populations in the Columbia and Snake River drainages. For more information visit www.jacknisbet.com
