WINTER SPORTS -- The Methow Valley Sport Trails Association is opening portions of its 120-mile groomed nordic trail system to bicycles this year. Skiers headed out on a few of the nationally celebrated nordic trails that had enough snow for grooming this week. When more…
HUNTING -- While we're on the subject of parasites and other buggers in the meat of the fish and game sportsmen might bring home from the field, here are a couple of subjects I did not cover in today's outdoors column: Rabbits should be well-cooked…
WILDLIFE WATCHING -- Here's the latest snowy owl sighting from Lincoln County: At 3:09 p.m. Wednesday for about 30 minutes we had very close-up eye level views of a Snowy Owl sitting on a wooden fence post approximately 1.1 miles west of Hwy. 231 on…
WILDLIFE -- A moose was freed from a strange backyard entanglement this summer thanks to a brave Utah deputy and a pair of cutters. Maybe you read the story about the bold and unusual rescue. But the video above offers a clearer image. Anyone who's…
WILDLIFE WATCHING -- While bald eagles have move into the Lake Coeur d'Alene area for a winter feast of kokanee, the ospreys that put on a fishing show all summer long in the area left the area by early November and are migrating to warmer…
Rich Landers writes and photographs stories and columns for a wide range of outdoors coverage, including Outdoors feature sections on Sunday and Thursday.