From Lake Coeur d'Alene to its confluence with the Columbia, the Spokane River travels 111 miles of varied and often spectacular terrain-rural, urban, in places wild. The river has been a trading and gathering place for Indigenous peoples for thousands of years. With bountiful trout, accessible swimming holes, and challenging rapids, it is a recreational magnet for residents and tourists alike. The Spokane also bears the legacy of industrial growth and remains caught amid interests competing over natural resources. The contributors to this collection profile this living river through personal reflection, history, science, and poetry. They bring a keen environmental awareness of resource scarcity, climate change, and cultural survival tied to the river's fate.

The stocking of nonnative fishes into lakes of Lassen Volcanic National Park (LVNP) was discontinued in the late 1970s and many lakes have since returned to a fishless condition. Due to a lack of comprehensive surveys, however, present fish distributions were largely unknown as were impacts of fish predation on native biota. Here we present results of a study examining the distribution of introduced fishes and their ongoing effects on littoral macroinvertebrate and zooplankton assemblages among larger (>2 m deep), natural lakes and ponds likely to have been stocked in the past.