SPOKANE RIVER: Sold to highest bidder?
While we worry about overpopulation clogging our roads, an urgent crisis is unfolding on our water, and you deserve to know. The Idaho Department of Lands (IDL) has been fast-tracking the approval of over 223 new commercial boat slips on the Spokane River. For over a year, Concerned Citizens Protecting the Spokane River, a grassroots group, has fought to ensure our community’s safety and constitutional rights aren’t swept under the rug; but mostly to no avail.
This spring, we’re taking our battle to the Idaho Supreme Court (date TBA). Thus far, the IDL has denied our group the legal “standing” to be heard; effectively silencing the people they took an oath to protect and grossly ignoring the Public Trust Doctrine — a legal principle stating that the state must manage natural resources for the benefit of the public, not private commercial interests.
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