Columbia River Watershed
Past & Future

Document Library

Home | Currents | Resources | About | John & Rachael Paschal Osborn

 Document Index by Date

Visits since March 9, 2003


To search for a word or phrase on this page and other pages select the Find feature (control or command F).

2005
 
Title: Spokane River dissolved oxygen. Letter to Governor Christine Gregoire
Author: Rachael Paschal Osborn
Date: February 14, 2005 | ID#: 050214
Category: Spokane River & Aquifer
Keywords: Spokane River, dissolved oxygen, TMDL, UAA, Washington Department of Ecology, Governor Christine Gregoire, Upper Columbia River Group, Sierra Club, Spokane Chamber of Commerce, Nine Point Plan
 
2004
 
Title: Dead Swan Award - 2004,
Author: John Osborn
Date: December 28, 2004 | ID#: 041228
Category: Forests, Superfund, Spokane River & Aquifer
Keywords: Mark Rey, Forest Service, EPA, Coeur d'Alene National Forest, Lake Coeur d'Alene, Spokane River, dead swan, lead, Jeff Holmes, Superfund, Coeur d'Alene Superfund
 
Title: Spokane-Coeur d'Alene Watershed - Regional Water Issue Matrix, PDF Print Ready Document
Author: Rachael Paschal Osborn
Date: November 8, 2004 | ID#: 041108
Category: Spokane-Coeur d'Alene Watershed
Keywords:
 
Title: Spokane River Dissolved Oxygen TMDL, PDF Print Ready Document
Author: Rachael Paschal Osborn
Date: July 29, 2004 | ID#: 040729
Category: Spokane River
Keywords: Spokane River, TMDL, Dissolved Oxygen
 
2003
 
Title: Tribal Water Summit
Author: Rachael Paschal Osborn
Date: May 16, 2003 | ID#: 031516
Category: Water Law and Policy
Keywords: water law, municipal water, HB 1338, overallocation, Department of Ecology, Methow Valley, Methow Valley Irrigation District, MVID, water diversions 
 
Title: Letter from King County to Legislators
Author: Ron Sims
Date: May 5, 2003 | ID#: 030505
Category: Water Law and Policy
Keywords: 5028, 1337, 1338, fish recovery, watershed planning 
 
Title: HB 1338: editorial
Author: John Osborn and Rachael Paschal Osborn
Date: March 18, 2003 | ID#: 030318
Category: Washington water law and policy
Keywords: municipal water rights, paper water rights, Washington water, HB 1338, Spokane Aquifer, Spokane River, water conservation
 
Title: News Release: Governor needs to make up his mind regarding water
Author: Northwest Indian Fisheries Commission
Date: February 13, 2003 | ID#: 030213
Category: Washington water law and policy
Keywords: Gary Locke, Northwest Indian Fisheries Commission, Billy Frank, HB 1338, HB 1317, HB 1337, HB 1336, municipal water rights 
 
Title: Washington Water Quality, Fact Sheet
Author: Rachael Paschal Osborn
Date: January 28,2003 | ID#: 030128
Category: Water Law and Policy
Keywords:Washington Administrative Code, water quality standards, beneficial use, boating, salmon, anti-degradation standard, outstanding resource waters, nonpoint pollution, agricultural runoff
 
Title: HB 1338: Letter to House
Author: John Osborn, MD
Date: January 27, 2003 | ID#: 030127
Category: Washington water law and policy
Keywords: HB 1338, municipal water rights 
 
Title: SB 5028: Letter to Senate
Author: Rachael Paschal Osborn
Date: January 20, 2003 | ID#: 030120
Category: Washington water law and policy
Keywords: SB 5028, MVID bill, quality quantity 
 
 

 

2002

 
Title: Dead Swan Award - 2002, Tom Fitzsimmons, Director, Washington Department of Ecology; Gary Locke, Governor, Washington State.
Author: John Osborn
Date: December 31, 2002 | ID#: 021231
Category: Coeur d'Alene Superfund
Keywords: Tom Fitzsimmons, Gary Locke, dead swans, lead, Spokane River, Coeur d'Alene Basin, Superfund, Lake Coeur d'Alene, MOA, Memoradum of Agreement, Idaho, Washington  

Title: Opposing NAS Study: Letter to Rep. George Nethercutt

Author: The Lands Council et al
Date: November 21,2002 | ID#: 021121
Category: Coeur d'Alene Superfund
Keywords: NAS, National Academy of Science, Coeur d'Alene Basin, George Nethercutt, Environmental Protection Agency, Spokane River

Title: Lake Management Plan won't work, news release

Author: Kootenai Environmental Alliance and The Lands Council
Date: November 7, 2002 | ID#: 021107
Category: Coeur d'Alene Superfund
Keywords: Lake Coeur d'Alene, Superfund, de-list, EPA, Idaho Department of Environmental Quality, Coeur d'Alene Tribe
 
Title: Letter to Senators Murray and Cantwell relating to EPA and the Idaho Commission
Author: Lois Gibbs, Stephen D'Esposito, Debbie Sease, Barbara Miller, Grant Cope, Robert Pregulman
Date: September 30, 2002 | ID#: 020930
Category: Superfund, Coeur d'Alene
Keywords: Bunker Hill Superfund Site, Memorandum of Agreement, MOA, Idaho Act, institutional controls, Idaho, Washington, U.S. government, EPA, U.S. Constitution
 
Title: Deficiencies in Cleanup Plan, guest editorial
Author: John Osborn, MD
Date: August 31, 2002 | ID#: 020831
Category: Coeur d'Alene Superfund
Keywords: Mine wastes, Coeur d'Alene River, Lake Coeur d'Alene, Spokane River, lead, zinc, Superfund, Gary Locke
 
Title: Memorandum of Agreement (MOA) establishing the Basin Commission
Author:
Date: August 13, 2002 | ID#: 020813
Category: Coeur d'Alene Superfund
Keywords: MOA, Memorandum of Agreement, Idaho Commission, Basin Commission, Basin Environmental Improvement Project Commission, Coeur d'Alene Basin, Bunker Hill, Lake Coeur d'Alene Management Plan, CERCLA
 
Title: Letter to Governor Gary Locke asking him not to sign the MOA
Author: John Osborn
Date: August 12, 2002 | ID#: 020812
Category: Superfund, Coeur d'Alene
Keywords: Superfund Site, Memorandum of Agreement, MOA
 
Title: Idaho Denies Water For Massive Power Plants, Decision "A Victory For All"
Author: Barry Rosenberg, Timm Ormsby, Chase Davis, Justin Hayes, Rachael Paschal Osborn
Date: July 18, 2002 | ID#: 020718
Category: Aquifer
Keywords: Aquifer
 
Title: Spokane Aquifer in Peril
Author: John Osborn
Date: July, 2001 | ID#: 020700
Category: Aquifer
Keywords: Aquifer, railroad land grants
 
Title: Our Aquifer In Peril
Author: John Osborn
Date: March 25, 2002 | ID#: 020325
Category: Aquifer
Keywords: Aquifer
 
Title: Inadequacies of Coeur dAlene Basin Cleanup Plan (draft)
Author: John Osborn, M.D.
Date: March 14, 2000 | ID#: 020303
Category: Superfund and Mining
Keywords: Mining, superfund, lead, zinc, cadmium, floodplain, Lake Coeur dAlene, Spokane River, forest destruction, children at health risk, dead swans
 
Title: Comments on EPA's draft clean-up plan for the Coeur d'Alene Basin
Author: John Osborn,MD
Date: February 26, 2002 | ID#: 020226
Category: Superfund, Coeur d'Alene
Keywords:Coeur d'Alene River, Coeur d'Alene Lake, Spokane River, Coeur d'Alene National Forest, North Fork Coeur d'Alene River, Superfund, lead, cadmium, zinc, arsenic, Bunker Hill, Bunker Hill Superfund Site, blood lead levels, flooding
 

2001
 
Title: Sierra Club Resolution Opposing S.585
Author: Sierra Club
Date: February 1, 2001 | ID#: 010201
Category: Coeur d'Alene Superfund
Keywords: S. 585, Idaho, mine waste, Coeur Alene River, Lake Coeur d'Alene, Spokane River, Washington, Coeur d'Alene National Forest, Forest Service, floods, Superfund
 

2000
  
Title: PURGING MINING'S POISONS - Cleaning up the Coeur d'Alene Basin
Author: John Osborn, M.D.
Date: March 14, 2000 | ID#: 000314
Category: Mining and Superfund
Keywords: Legislature, Mining, Superfund, Appropriations, Natural Resource Damage (NRD) Claim
 

1997
 
Title: Idaho Settles With Mining Companies After Lawsuit Funding Mysteriously Disappears
Author: John Osborn, M.D.
Date: December 30, 1997 | ID#: 971214
Category: Superfund and Mining
Keywords: Keywords: Legislature, Mining, Superfund, Appropriations, Natural Resource Damage (NRD) Claim n 
 

1994
 
Title: "Valley of Death"
Author: John Osborn, MD
Date: July 1, 1994 | ID#: 940701
Category: Coeur d'Alene Superfund
Keywords: Valley of Death, Mine Operators Association, Bunker Hill, pollution easements, Lake Coeur d'Alene 
 

1990
 
Title: Idahoan EPA Regional Director Blocks Superfund Cleanup
Author: EPA Inspector General
Date: January 30, 1990 | ID#: 900130
Category: Superfund, Coeur d'Alene
Keywords: mining, superfund, epa regional director, Bunker Hill Superfund Site, epa's regional director blocks cleanup, corporations hide assets to avoid cleanup costs, public health threatened
 
1989
 
Title: Reply to the Responsive Statement for the Idaho Conservation League, et al Appeal of the USFS Plan for the Idaho Panhandle National Forests
Author: John Osborn, Tom May, Randall O'Toole, et al
Date: September 29, 1989 | ID#: 890929
Category: Forests
Keywords: National Forest,Idaho Panhandle National Forests, USFS,US Forest Service, Forest Service,St. Joe National Forest, Kaniksu National Forest, Coeur d'Alene National Forest,Coeur d'Alene Basin,Lake Coeur d'Alene,Priest Lake,Lake Pend Oreille,nondeclining even flow,sustaine yield,old growth forest,reforestation failures,RPA,Resources Planning Act,NFMA,National Forest Management Act,clearcutting,even-aged management,logging roads,cumulative effects,checkerboard,intermingled ownership,selective management,Church guidelines,NEPA,National Environmental Policy Act,Idaho Timber Supply Analysis,community stability,John Crowell Jr.,forest planning,forest plans,OGC,Office of General Counsel,Avery District,Bonners Ferry District,Priest Lake District,Wallace District,Fernan District,St. Maries District,James McClure,John Mumma,Hubert Humphrey,Randall O'Toole,CHEC,below cost timber sales,grizzly bear,caribou,gray wolf,pileated woodpecker,Burlington Northern,land exchanges,north Idaho,Idaho Panhandle,Clean Water Act,peak flows,north Idaho lakes,professional judgment,rain on snow,BMPs,Best Management Practices,travel plan,riparian zones,Plum Creek,Plum Creek Timber Company,Idaho Department of Fish and Game,Washington Department of Wildlife,cutthroat trout,bull trout,bedload,bedload sediment,roadless areas,road closures,nonpoint water pollution,management indicator species,snags,white pine blister rust,ESA,Endangered Species Act,ORVs,travel management plan,elk habitat,
 

1979
 
Title: Creating the Sawtooth National Recreation Area, Protecting Wilderness The third chapter from the book, Protecting the Sawtooth Country, 1979.
Author: John Osborn
Date: May 1, 1979 | ID#: 790501
Category: Forests
Keywords: Sawtooth National Recreation Area, Sawtooth Wilderness, White Clouds, Boulder White Clouds, Frank Church, Howard Zahniser, ASARCO, James McClure, Don Samuelson, Ernie Day, Cecil Andrus, Len Jordan, Sawtooth Primitive Area, National Wilderness Preservation System, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Henry David Thoreau, George Catlin, John Muir, Sierra Club, Gifford Pinchot, Aldo Leopold, Robert Marshall, Wilderness Society, David Brower, Hubert Humphrey, Multiple Use Sustained Yield Act