FISHING -- With spring chinook salmon booming up the Columbia River system, some anglers find it particularly exciting to go online and feast their eyes on the fish viewing window at the top of the Bonneville Dam fish ladder to see what's headed upstream our…
FISHING -- Behold, spring fishing in Minnesota. Anglers in photo above look warmer than many of the people I saw at Spokane County lakes during Saturday's lowland lakes fishing season opener.
HUNTING/FISHING -- Washington's hunting and fishing license fees will be increased by an average of 9.9 percent, according to Senate Bill 5385, passed last week by the Washington Legislature and sent to Gov. Chris Gregoire for her signature. The new fees, which include a few…
UPLAND BIRDS -- The Conservation Reserve Program has been a boost for wildlife in many areas, but everyone agrees that the type of vegetation planted in the retired farmlands is critical to its subsequent value to wildlife. Some plantings have left cover, but little food…
VOLCANOES -- The Johnston Ridge Observatory -- the major facility attraction in the 110,000-acre Mount St. Helens National Volcanic Monument -- will reopen for the season on Sunday, May 15 — three days before the anniversary of the 1980 eruption. The center closes each winter…
EXTREME SKIING -- Free skier Matthias Giraud and his skiing partner Stefan Laude used skill, guts and high-definition GoPro helmet-cams recently to film a carefully planned stunt that lets us soar with them through the French Alps. On his website, Giraud says he and Laude…
Rich Landers writes and photographs stories and columns for a wide range of outdoors coverage, including Outdoors feature sections on Sunday and Thursday.
