RIVERS -- Recent rains storms with more on the way combined with high flows out of Canada are prolonging the region's "spring" runoff in a big way. The Kootenai River rose above flood stage at Bonners Ferry today, according to our S-R weather reporter. The…
ENVIRONMENT -- Can we expect a "Sportsmen's Act" introduced in Congress to actually be in the best interest of hunters and anglers? A Missoulian opinion columnist is skeptical in this column. "Those who watch Congress have surely noticed an alarming trend of putting misleading titles…
WHITEWATER -- Remember the mechanical bull riding made popular in Urban Cowboy? A pair of boaters in a 14-foot cataraft got a feeling for that rotating, jerking motion as they ran Slalom Rapid and got hung up in Seymour's -- a keeper wave on the…
CITY PARKS -- In 2013 the City of Spokane Parks and Recreation Department will be facing an estimated 5.5 percent budget reduction totaling about $1 million. Parks officials have set two public meetings this week to help form priorities for the program cuts that will…
WILDLIFE WATCHING -- While the cows are tending to their calves, bull elk are growing antlers. Western Montana wildlife photographer Jaime Johnson reminds us this week that spring is beautiful time to be an elk.
Rich Landers writes and photographs stories and columns for a wide range of outdoors coverage, including Outdoors feature sections on Sunday and Thursday.
