FISHING -- Fishing season opened today in a select group of lakes, mostly in Central Washington. While success rates weren't good everywhere, some lakes -- notably Upper Caliche, Martha, Burke and Quincy Lakes -- were the best in recently years, said Chad Jackson, Washington Department…
ANIMALS -- People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals, an out-there animal rights and anti-hunting group, acknowledged Wednesday that it euthanized 95 percent of the animals at a shelter at its Virginia headquarters last year. PETA also indicated it would like to kill the messanger.…
HUNTING – The numbers resemble the parameters for wild turkey hunts -- but it’s the 2012 Idaho Panhandle wolf hunting and trapping proposals that have just been released by Jim Hayden, Idaho Fish and Game Department regional wildlife manager in Coeur d’Alene: Hunting Bag limit,…
HUNTING -- I'll bet wildlife mangers are wishing prey species such as elk and deer were this resilliant. Despite months of open hunting, Montana's grey wolf population increased by about 15 percent in 2011. A report issued by Montana Fish, Wildlife and Parks said the…
PUBLIC LANDS -- The U.S. Forest Service has just released the following statement regarding a federal court decision on fees charged for access to some national forest trailheads. A recent article that appeared in news outlets around the country misportrayed a recent court decision that…
HUNTING -- The flap continues in California over the Fish and Game Commission president who came to Idaho for a legally guided cougar hunt. His home-state anti-hunting creeps are wailing for him to resign since cougars can't be hunted in California. Forty state legislators sent…
SHELLFISH -- Just kidding with the headline. I know the difference between clams and waterfowl. But for a long time, it seems, ducks have had more protection than the great goeduck of Washington's beaches. Numbers of the largest, oldest and most bizarre-looking wild clam species…
WILDLIFE -- Motorists see a lot of wildlife -- dead and alive -- while driving I-90 over Snoqualmie Pass, and they're willing to share their sightings. In the first-year of a motorist based wildlife monitoring program, nearly 7,000 visits were logged into the Wildlife Watch…
HUNTING -- With concern for elk herds still high on the list of issues, the Idaho Department of Fish and Game has scheduled four public meetings in the Idaho Panhandle to discuss 2012 big-game hunting seasons for deer, bear, lion, wolves and elk. In some…
BICYCLING -- March means bicyclists soon will be blooming in profusion. Here's an instructive poster to check out from Big Thigh Country.
Rich Landers writes and photographs stories and columns for a wide range of outdoors coverage, including Outdoors feature sections on Sunday and Thursday.
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