OUTDOOR RECREATION -- This is sad news for Coeur d'Alene River anglers, floaters and users of the Trail of the Coeur d'Alenes. Future of historic Enaville Resort (Snakepit) uncertain as owners battle cancer -- story by D.F. Oliveria/Huckleberries.
PUBLIC LANDS -- Getting no satisfaction from a letter of concern to the forest supervisor, three Washington-based conservation groups have appealed a Colville National Forest travel plan designating where ATVs, motorcycles and other off-highway vehicles can go at the south end of the 1.1 million…
OUTDOORS -- Kyle Hansen, a sophomore at West Valley High School, received his first check for writing outdoor prose on Saturday. You can see he wasn't disappointed in this photo from his parents. Hansen won the top award in The Spokesman-Review's 2011 Outdoor Writing Contest…
BIRDING -- Ghost Bird, a documentary about the search for the ivory-billed woodpecker -- thought to be extinct until researchers scored some earth-shaking video -- will be presented Wednesday, 7 p.m., at the Spokane Audubon Society general meeting program. See Ghost Bird trailer here. These…
WILDLIFE -- With no large predators, the elk roaming Theodore Roosevelt National Park have been too much of a good thing in North Dakota. Volunteers help park managers by stepping up to kill 462 elk in the park this fall during the second year of…
Rich Landers writes and photographs stories and columns for a wide range of outdoors coverage, including Outdoors feature sections on Sunday and Thursday.
