SHOOTING -- It's interesting if not disturbing that the discussion over guns has prompted some people among their group of circled wagons to excuse poor gun handling. See the comments to my post regarding the photo (above) snapped at Friday's gun rights rally in Olympia.…
HUNTING -- Winter elk surveys are being hindered in the Idaho Panhandle by poor visibility and flying conditions. But Jim Hayden, Idaho Fish and Game Department regional wildlife manager, says he has enough information to at least predict there's little hope that elk calf survival…
Heres a list of top recent outdoors stories in The Spokesman-Review: Anglers Hook It and Cook It at Alaska fishing event Nordic skiing trails sprout near Sandpoint Out & About: Spokane native lands state-record mackinaw Field reports: Coyote hunt eyed to protect wolf Wolf hunts…
WINTER SPORTS -- The annual Langlauf cross-country ski race at Mount Spokane has equal parts of waxing anxiety, sweat, cheering, food -- and a lot of hope for placing high in an age group or winning one of the many drawings for thousands of dollars…
SHOOTING -- The Spokesman-Review photo above from Friday's gun rights rally in Olympia shows an appalling lack of muzzle control, with a firearm being carried in an unsafe manner. That lady would be booted out of my elk camp, or forced to eat my cooking…
WINTER SPORTS -- Snow conditions are "mostly stable" in the region's mountains going into the weekend and the weather forecast calls for improving stability from the slight weak layers discussed in this week's avalanche advisory by the Idaho Panhandle Avalance Center.
PREDATORS -- A proposal to narrow wildlife management options and expand the state's wolf hunt is being fast-tracked through the Montana Legislature for the governor's, according to the Associated Press. The Montana Senate on Thursday suspended its rules so it could take initial and final…
SHOOTING -- A tip of the hat to a Wyoming newspaper editorial for standing up in the volatile world of firearms debate to call for reasonable limits that would help wildlife enforcement. Hunters don't need silencers on their guns in Wyoming The Wyoming House's decision…
FISHING -- Getting a record fish weighed and verified isn't as easy as one might think. Certified scales are rare. Fish quickly begin loosing ounces after they are killed. Phil Coylar of Wenatchee got some great advice as he came to the dock at Lake…
WILDLIFE -- Bam Bam, the bighorn sheep whose penchant for butting cars made him an international star, died of natural causes in Wyoming last week. He was believed to be 12. Bam Bam was the last of the Wheatland-area Sinks Canyon State Park bighorn herd,…
WILDLIFE WATCHING -- A Newcastle, Wash., man got a rare daylight view of a bobcat and her kitten in action this week -- through his kitchen window. J.D. Hammerly was able to snap photos of the bobcat squirrel hunting spree in his backyard. Newcastle is…
ENDANGERED SPECIES -- The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service proposal to list the wolverine as a threatened species is generating more insight into the elusive carnivore. Even in modern times, wildlife biologists are just documenting the life-history suggested in this quote of the day: "We…
FISHING -- The Washington Fish and Wildlife Department has announced steelhead fishing will open on the Wenatchee and Icicle rivers on Friday along with fishing for whitefish on the Wenatchee. Following are details from the just-issued WDFW announcement. Actions:Open the Wenatchee and Icicle rivers on…
CONSERVATTION -- Quail Unlimited president Bill Bowles has announced on QU website that the nation's oldest quail advocacy group has folded . Mismanagement in the national conservation group's operations has been charged for several years. Bowles advised members to turn their allegiance to Quail Forever…
PUBLIC LANDS -- Sally Jewell, Recreational Equipment Inc. Chief Executive Sally Jewell is being nominated by President Obama to lead the Interior Department in his second term. Jewell, 56, has served as the Washington-state-based outdoor retailer's CEO since 2005. She started her career as a…
Blackwater Devil's Gold (Official Trailer) from Castaway Films on Vimeo. FISHING -- Incredible fishing sequences and photography was so common in Tuesday night's Fly Fishing Film Tour at the Bing Crosby Theater -- we came to expect nothing less. Here are my top picks in…
FISHING -- A 35-pound, 10-ounce pending state record lake trout was caught Monday in Lake Chelan by Phil Colyar of Wenatchee, according to a report on Northwestern Outdoors Radio. The current official state record mackinaw also was caught in Lake Chelan -- a 35-pound, 7-ounce…
PUBLIC LANDS -- Target shooters aiming at exploding targets last fall ignited the Goat Fire that burned 7,400 acres from Sept. 15 through early November and made life hell for Wenatchee region residents, according to a U.S. Forest Service report released today. No arrests have…
SURVIVAL -- The Citadel, a 2,000 to 3,000-acre enclosed survivalist compound proposed for the St. Maries, Idaho, area is not really an outdoors story, other than in its potential to change the complexion of hunting and fishing in the St. Joe River region. But it's…
WATER SPORTS -- A city parks instructor manual appears to ban city-sponsored kayak trips in the kind of weather that led to a chaotic and deadly excursion organized by Gonzaga University and sponsored by the Spokane Parks and Recreation Department, according to a lawsuit filed…
PREDATORS -- Along with citizen complaints about moose, coyotes and other creatures, Washington Fish and Wildlife police were busy responding to a number of cougar-related issues last week. Here are just a few examples from the weekly Washington Department of Fish and Wildlife Spokane Region…
Here's a sampling of the top outdoors stories in the S-R from the past few days: Bills would rein in wolves Feds propose endangered status for wolverine Environmental groups vow to sue feds over caribou habitat State Park ranger wears multiple hats at Mount Spokane…
UPDATED with details about memorial service. OUTDOOR WRITING -- Fenton S. Roskelley, who covered the outdoors for the Spokane Chronicle and The Spokesman-Review for 63 years, died Wednesday (Jan. 30) at the age of 96 with his family at his bedside, said his son, John…
ENDANGERED SPECIES -- The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service has proposal listing the wolverine in the lower 48 states as a threatened species under the federal Endangered Species Act. See Associated Press story. The agency announced its proposal today, a dozen years after environmental groups…
RESERVOIRS -- The level of Lake Roosevelt was 1274.85 at midnight last night and is expected to slowly rise over the next week. The Bureau of Reclamation anticipates the elevation for the end of next week will be in the 1277 - 1279 range. Currently,…
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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