WINTER SPORTS -- A family consumed by grief after a husband and father was killed by an avalanche in Montana last week got something to pick up their spirits: Their dog, buried in the avalanche, surfaced and was found alive four days later. Read on…
WINTER SPORTS -- No place in the Inland Northwest will have more cross-country skiing and snowshoeing activities this weeked than the annual Winterfest at 49 Degrees North. The events are in the downhill ski area as well as on the nordic ski trail system. From…
PUBLIC LANDS -- About 200 miles of trails and more than 1 million acres of the Clearwater National Forest will close to motorized users under a new travel management plan released Wednesday. See all the official forest documents on the travel plan here. Meanwhile, the…
ENDANGERED SPECIES -- The young male wolf that has been traipsing about Oregon has made its way into Northern California, the first wolf to do so since 1924. Details in this Los Angeles Times report, Oregon wolf makes its way to N. California.
CONSERVATION -- I hear grumbling about state and federal agencies being proactive by buying or blocking up lowland wild areas. But listen up. Far-sighted groups such as the Rocky Mountain Elk Foundation, Ducks Unlimited, Inland Northwest Land Trust and The Nature Conservancy are joining the…
HUNTING -- A Washington Department of Fish and Wildlife plan to turn a prized December elk hunt for Master Hunters into a permit hunt is ruffling the feathers of sportsmen who had a lock on the land used by elk coming off Turnbull National Wildlife…
WINTER SPORTS -- Lift ticket prices on Friday at Silver Mountain Resort will be the same as they were in the beginning. In 1968, the original Jackass Ski Bowl on Wardner Peak opened to the public with a single Riblet chair lift at the end…
NATIONAL PARKS -- The U.S. Postal Service is featuring an image of Logan Pass in Glacier National Park on an international rate postage stamp to be issued starting Jan. 19. The stamp was designed by art director Ethel Kessler, based on an image taken by…
PREDATORS -- A third sportsmen's organization has stepped up with incentives that encourage hunters to bag a wolf to help give relief to struggling elk herds before Montana's wolf hunting season ends in February, according to a story in the Ravalli Republic. So far, the…
Rich Landers writes and photographs stories and columns for a wide range of outdoors coverage, including Outdoors feature sections on Sunday and Thursday.