PUBLIC LANDS -- Cleanup continues at the Illia Dunes area along the Snake River downstream from Lower Granite Dam after last weekend's college-crowd of about 3,000 left the popular recreation site marred by trash. The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, which manages the Snake River…
PREDATORS -- About 70 people attended a pro-wolf rally in Coeur d'Alene on Thursday, the day the state's wolf hunting season opened. The Coeur d'Alene Press has this news report on the rally, including the observation that a hunter who tried to support Idaho's current…
ENDANGERED SPECIES -- Washington wildlife managers have given a reprieve to four wolves targeted for killing in the state’s northeastern corner. But the wolves aren't taking a holiday. The Department of Fish and Wildlife said Thursday that it was giving the temporary reprieve to give…
OUTSTANDING – ROW Adventures, a Coeur d’Alene-based rafting and adventure travel company, was named No. 1 Tour Operator in the 2012 World’s Best Awards survey by Travel + Leisure magazine readers. Tour operators were rated on criteria such as staff, itineraries, activities, accommodations, food and…
Rich Landers writes and photographs stories and columns for a wide range of outdoors coverage, including Outdoors feature sections on Sunday and Thursday.