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…
PUBLIC LANDS -- The Obama administration says new rules to manage nearly 200 million acres of national forests will protect watersheds and wildlife while promoting uses ranging from recreation to logging, according to story that just moved over the Associated Press wire. The new rules,…
SEARCH AND RESCUE -- Readers following the story of the lost dog rescued high in the Kettle Range yesterday will enjoy these followup photos. The pix, just sent to me by Mariann Crooks, show Rebel, a 7-month-old bluetick coonhound, still wiped out from the two…
WINTER SPORTS -- Today's story about students rescuing a snowshoer's bluetick coonhound lost in the Kettle Range for two nights offers a life lesson to all of us. Helping other people can be remarkably easy and productive if we just make the effort to try.…
SALMON FISHING -- State biologists are forecasting good returns of spring chinook salmon this year to Wind River and Drano Lake, popular sport-fishing spots in the Columbia River Gorge. The prediction is for 8,400 adult spring chinook to enter the Columbia destined for the Wind…
WILDLIFE WATCHING -- Should a hunter ever be excused for killing a trumpeter swan he misidentified as a snow goose? Probably not. Here are three notable reasons from Rich Myhre of the Everett Herald: Because of their white color, trumpeter swans look a little bit…
BIRDWATCHING -- You've heard of a murder of crows, a pride of lions and a exhaltation of larks, right? What is the term for a group of snowy owls? A. Blizzard. B. Parliament C. Congress D. Hoot E. Forum Click "continue reading" for the answer.
Video: Finding Oregon Time-Lapse OUTDOOR PHOTOGRAPHY -- Many of Oregon's iconic natural features are captured in this soothing production of time-lapse photography. It's called "Finding Oregon, by Uncage the Soul Productions. The clip involves six months of photography across…
Rich Landers writes and photographs stories and columns for a wide range of outdoors coverage, including Outdoors feature sections on Sunday and Thursday.
