BOATING -- Three years in the making, a Pend Oreille River Water Trail plan covering 70 miles of the river in northeastern Washington will be served up -- along with snacks and beverages -- at an open house meeting Thursday (Aug. 4), 5 p.m.-7 p.m.,…
CONSERVATION -- This is a previous post updated with a response from Rep. Cathy McMorris Rodgers: U.S. District Court Judge James Redden has once again rejected the federal government's plan to operate hydropower dams in the Columbia River basin without jeopardizing salmon, according to today's…
BACKPACKING -- Rangers have taken the rare step of capturing and killing a grizzly bear deemed a threat to human safety in Yellowstone National Park after the bruin menaced a hiker without any apparent provocation. Bear managers told Reuters the 4-year-old male grizzly was euthanized…
BACKPACKING -- The photo above shows Jeff Lambert of the Spokane Mountaineers in the last weekend of July along with Mirror Lake and Eagle Cap Peak from Carper Pass -- all popular backpacking destinations in the Eagle Cap Wilderness. The shot is worth a thousand…
NATIONAL FORESTS -- Crews from the Clearwater and Nez Perce national forests are just getting into the backroads where this year's whopping snowpack prevented access until late July. What they're finding isn't always pretty, as you can see from the photo above on Road 500…
HUNTING -- Here are a few timely Montana hunting tips and updates to help nonresident sportsmen with an eye on hunting in Montana. Thanks to Jim Mitchell of Montana Hunting & Fishing Adventures in Hamilton for the heads up on some of this. The new…
HIKING -- Striding along at a rate of nearly two marathons A DAY, Jennifer Pharr Davis has set an unofficial record for the fastest assisted hike of the entire Appalachian Trail from Mount Katahdin in Maine to Springer Mountain in Georgia. She saw 36 bears,…
HIKING -- You think the late spring that continuted into summer screwed up some of your plans? How abou Jake Bramante, the young Missoulian who dedicated this season to becoming the first person to hike all 734 miles of trails in Glacier National Park in…
ENDANGERED SPECIES –Washington’s gray wolf conservation and management plan will take another step toward adoption Thursday when the nearly completed document – years in the making – is presented to the state Fish and Wildlife Commission. State wildlife officials will start their presentation to the…
WILDLIFE PHOTOGRAPHY -- National Geographic photographer Michael Melford -- who's made some famous photos of Alaska brown bears fishing for salmon -- gives a slide show during a lecture featuring funny and amazing stories about his work.
Rich Landers writes and photographs stories and columns for a wide range of outdoors coverage, including Outdoors feature sections on Sunday and Thursday.
