Expo '74+50 Sierra Club Outing #2: Riches, Wreckage, and Recovery

**Please RSVP at https://www.sierraclub.org/washington/calendar**
9:00- Meet in the parking lot of the Cedars Floating bridge at Blackwell Island in Coeur d' Alene. Welcome, introductions, sign release form, go over schedule for the day.
9:15- 9:45- Past and future of Lake Coeur d' Alene
9:45-11:00- Drive (carpool) to Wallace (Pulaski Tunnel Trail)
11:00-12:15- Wallace: The Big Burn and Ranger Ed Pulaski, hero (short walk on the tunnel trail)
12:30- Picnic at Smelterville City Park (bring your own lunch)
12:45-1:30 Uncle Bunker: the Bunker Hill Lead Smelter
1:45- Cataldo Mission: Expo '74, Toxic Floods, Forest Destruction, Climate Crisis, Ethics
3:00- Close

Protecting Coeur d'Alene Lake: one of the earth's most beautiful lakes and headwaters for the Spokane River, Coeur d'Alene Lake is also polluted. The lake is a tailings' pond for the Coeur d'Alene mining district -- with 60-80 million tons of toxic material on the lake bottom. To know the lake is to know its watershed: the great forest fire of 1910, massive logging, and mining's riches and wreckage. During the 1996 flood event, over a million pounds of lead flowed into Coeur d'Alene Lake and, some, into the Spokane River. In the decade after Expo '74, major battles erupted here over logging and mining pollution. We honor the Coeur d'Alene Tribe for leading the effort to protect their homeland and the lake. This event will focus on remedies for Coeur d'Alene Lake -- the unfinished work of Expo '74.