RIVER RUNNING -- The Idaho County sheriff's office says a Missoula man died Wednesday in a rafting accident on the Lochsa River in north-central Idaho, according to the Lewiston Tribune. Keegan Seth Ginther, 29, died after three or four people had been thrown from a…
BACKPACKING -- Women (especially) looking for hiking inspiration can score big with a book by an iron-woman who worked her way up the hiking status ranks before setting the supported Appalachian Trail women's record of 57 days to cover 2,175 miles. That's a brisk average…
CRITTER WATCHING -- I take no responsibility for this: Two robins were sitting in a tree. "I'm really hungry," the first one said. "Me, too," said the second. "Let's fly down and find some lunch." They swooped to the ground and found a plot of…
FISHERIES -- Managers at Dworshak National Fish Hatchery say they have destroyed 332,000 juvenile summer steelhead since April to protect the rest of the hatchery’s fish from a deadly virus. In April, 240,000 steelhead were destroyed after IHNV was confirmed in some rearing tanks by…
FISHING -- Starting Friday, all chinook and sockeye salmon with external floy (anchor) tags attached must be immediatly released if caught by anglers in the upper Columbia River system, the Washington Fish and Wildlife Department announced Wednessday. The rule will be in effect through Oct.…
FISHERIES -- The Western Division of American Fisheries Society says four lower Snake River dams and reservoirs present a significant threat to existence of wild fish. The group approved a resolution making that point Wednesday during its meeting in Portland. Read the full text of…
FLY FISHING -- Okay, so I made a little fun in my column last week of a colleague's excitement over finding a single salmonfly in downtown Spokane. The discovery pales to the days when clouds of salmonflies fed a Spokane River teeming with trout. But…
SHELLFISHING -- After a five-year struggle lost by commercial harvesters, recreational crab fishers in Puget Sound have been offered a much-desired fixed season from July 1 until Labor Day, with no quotas for total take. Commercial crab harvesters must now take a back seat to…
Rich Landers writes and photographs stories and columns for a wide range of outdoors coverage, including Outdoors feature sections on Sunday and Thursday.
