RIVERS -- The river running season is officially underway on Hangman (Latah) Creek, and it could be over in another day or two. Unlike most rivers that require spring runoff to get the juices flowing, Hangman is notorious for brief spurts of high flows generated…
WILDLIFE -- Idaho Fish and Game biologists confirmed a recent sighting of a Canada lynx on the Salmon-Challis National Forest. The sighting is the first direct evidence of lynx presence on the forest since 1991. Idaho Fish and Game collected hair and scat samples from…
FORESTS -- Backpackers passing through the Holden Village area between the Glacier Peak Wilderness and Lake Chelan will continue to seek a lot of heavy equipment activity during the environmental cleanup o fthe Holden Mine. Federal agencies gave the formal OK to the project this…
PREDATORS -- As January ends, Idaho’s first wolf trapping season has harvested 60 wolves statewide in the TRAPPING season that opened Nov. 15. That compares with 204 wolves taken by sportsmen in the HUNTING season that opened Aug. 30. Idaho's total wolf kill by hunters…
FISHING -- It's time for a women's road trip to Riggins, Idaho, to warm up the town and win cash in the Women with Bait steelhead fishing derby on the Salmon River. Every guided boatload of ladies gets a "bait boy" to do all the…
CONSERVATION -- Western voters who identify themselves as sportsmen view America’s public lands as critical to their state’s economy and quality of life, accoding to survey results released Monday by Colordao College, in Colorado Springs. The State of the Rockies Conservation in the West poll…
FISHERIES -- In an effort to improve the kokanee fishery in Dworshak Reservoir, the U.S. Corps of Engineers and Idaho Fish and Game are experiementing with "fertilizing" the waters. This is a popular idea with some people, but not by others, including those who've filed…
ANGLING -- Saturday's free ice-fishing event at Hauser Lake, organized by Idaho Fish and Game, was a huge success in luring people of all ages to try the sport. Lots of credit to go around, but you have to give a big high five for…
FORESTS -- The Washington Department of Natural Resources has discovered a new infestation of Douglas-fir tussock moths that occurred last summer in the Blue Mountains of Washington and Oregon. Light defoliation caused by the moths was mapped across 9,000 acres of the Umatilla National Forest,…
WILDLIFE -- Hypnotizing. Could you ever get tired of looking into a snowy owl's eyes? The nifty image above was captured over the weekend by wildlife photographer Jaime Johnson of Lincoln, Mont. See a video with some details of this season's snowy owl irruption.
NATIONAL FORESTS -- Reduced recreation funding on the Nez Perce-Clearwater National Forests will keep the Lochsa Historic Ranger Station from opening its doors this summer, according to a report by the Lewiston Morning Tribune. The log structure on the Lochsa River, about 48 miles east…
HUNTING -- Nonresident hunters eyeing an elk hunt in Montana this fall need to be on the ball a few months earlier than usual to make their applilcations for special permits. Hunting and fishing licenses went on sale Jan. 16 and March 15 is the…
OCEAN FISHING -- A three-decade quest to reel in a marlin weighing more than 1,000 pounds ended spectacularly for businessman Bob Rich Jr. this fall in the Black Marlin Classic catch-and-release tournament off Australia's Great Barrier Reef. If you've never experienced the power of these…
COMPETITIVE FISHING -- The Oregon State University team of Zach MacDonald, of Willits, Calif. and William Sparks, of Corvallis, Ore. won the National Guard FLW College Fishing West Conference event on Lake Shasta near Redding, Calif., Saturday. An Eastern Washington University team of local anglers…
TRAILS -- South Hill trailmaster Jim Kershner said he didn't see anyone while hiking the South Hill Bluff trails this morning. His photo explains why. He managed to get home without any broken bones. Anyone for luge?
PREDATORS -- The Idaho Fish and Game Commission on Thursday expanded the wolf trapping season to include Unit 10A in the Dworshak-Elk City wolf management zone starting Feb. 1. The season in Unit 10A opens Wednesday and runs through March 31. Commissioner Fred Trevey, of…
SALMON FISHING -- Here they come! The first chinook samon of 2012 to swim up the Columbia and over Bonneville Dam were counted on Wednesday. That's the start of a strong run of 314,200 spring chinook forecast to enter the Columbia destined to waters upstream…
HUNTING -- Washington's revised elk hunting season proposals are scheduled to be posted on the Washington Department of Fish and Wildlife website on Wednesday (Feb. 1), the day a meeting is set in Spokane to discuss the different but related revision of the elk management…
WINTER SPORTS -- An avalanche class geared to snowmobilers starts tonight, 7 p.m., at the Sandpoint Forest Service office, conducted by the Idaho Panhandle Avalanche Center. The class continues in the field on Saturday, meeting at the Trestle Creek trailhead at 9 a.m.
WINTER SPORTS -- Idaho Panhandle Avalanche Center technicians found great riding and sliding conditions in the mountains during their Thursday survey, but they also found areas to avoid, according to the report posted this morning. The snow was lighter on top and firmer down toward…
PADDLING -- Some people were content to be inside where it was warm on Thursday. Blake Sommers was on the Spokane River test-driving his new kayak for the first time. He got a little swimming practice, too. Nothing ventured, nothing gained. But he didn't let…
Bald Knob Snowshoe, Mount Spokane State Park from Tanner Grant on Vimeo. WINTER SPORTS -- Tanner Grant of Spokane video's his recent snowshoe trek at Mount Spokane State Park to give the uninitiated a glimpse of one oft the more popular routes from the main…
WILDLIFE MANAGEMENT -- Allowing bait fishing on the Kettle River and other proposals debated in 2011 will be considered by the Washington Fish and Wildlife Commission next week in a package of sportfishing rules for 2012-13. The meeting is set for Feb. 3-4 in Olympia.…
PUBLIC LANDS -- Some North Idahol residents are upset by a proposal to designate an area half the size of Rhode Island in a remote part of the Panhandle and Washington as critical habitat for endangered woodland caribou. They blasted the U.S. Fish and Wildlife…
WINTER SPORTS -- In a dramatic event caught on video, a snowmobiler coming down a hill at Stampede Pass in the Cascades was buried by an avalanche but, luckily for him, friends were nearby and quickly responded to dig him out in time to save…
Rich Landers writes and photographs stories and columns for a wide range of outdoors coverage, including Outdoors feature sections on Sunday and Thursday.
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