WILDLIFE MANAGEMENT -- The Idaho Fish and Game Commission will be setting big game and chinook salmon seasons during a meeting Wednesday and Thursday at Fish and Game Department headquarters in Boise. According to the meeting agenda, the commission will set seasons for this fall’s…
PREDATORS -- The Rocky Mountain Elk Foundation wants wolves to be more aggressively managed in Montana and they’re offering state wildlife officials at least $50,000 to contract with federal trappers to kill more of the predators. RMEF President David Allen tells the Missoulian the state…
ENDANGERED SPECIES -- Citing requests from Idaho’s governor, local governments and the Kootenay Tribe, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service has announced a 60-day extension for public comment on a proposal to designate critical habitat for woodland caribou in the Selkirk Mountains. The federal agency…
SKIING -- The Bonner County Planning and Zoning Commission has scheduled a hearing next month to consider a Schweitzer Mountain Resort request for a zoning change to accommodate recreation trails and 11 more lots at The Spires. The meeting is set for 5:30 p.m. April…
MOUNTAINS -- This 6-minute sequence of excellent aerial photography documents the splendor of the mountains in Canada just north of Washington and Idaho as well as what some of these precious places could look like without protection. Those of you who hike, paddle, climb and…
Rich Landers writes and photographs stories and columns for a wide range of outdoors coverage, including Outdoors feature sections on Sunday and Thursday.