WILDLIFE WATCHING -- Lake Coeur d'Alene's Cougar Bay is filled with waterfowl, at least 1500 individuals, reports Lisa Hardy of CdA Audubon. Among them are 99 swans, almost all of which were tundra swans. On Friday, birders from Newport found about 65 tundra swans on…
WILDLIFE MANAGEMENT -- Forty-four cow elk in western Montana's Ravalli County have been equipped with GPS collars as part of an elk population study expected to last through 2013. Biologists with Montana Fish, Wildlife and Parks and the University of Montana attached the collars earlier…
WINTER SPORTS -- The trails, grooming and skiing conditions simply could not be better than they were Sunday at Mount Spokane's cross-country ski trails. One more brilliant day in the forecast before grimness returns.
Rich Landers writes and photographs stories and columns for a wide range of outdoors coverage, including Outdoors feature sections on Sunday and Thursday.
