HUNTING -- The first day of the spring gobbler hunting season is drawing to a close. "I almost got my turkey today," said George Orr in a voicemail message just before the end of legal shooting hours. "It ran right in front of me as…
HUNTING – Allowing lighted nocks for bowhunting was among 17 measures adopted for the 2013 hunting seasons during the Washington Fish and Wildlife Commission meeting Saturday in Oympia. Jim Sutton of Spokane has worked for several years to get the commission to approve the use…
BOATING -- The level of Lake Roosevelt is about 1274 feet today, and it's begun a steady downward trend to make room for spring runoff. But Columbia River dam operators don't expect the drawdown to be nearly as severe as in recent years, having less…
Following are some of the top recent regional outdoors stories in The Spokesman-Review: 2013 is 'year of the kokanee' for Inland NW anglers See 2013 Fishing Guide for a dozen stories on the region's fisheries Paddlers plead for river access in Convention Center expansion design…
FISHING – The Bonneville Power Administration may fund a salmon hatchery on the Walla Walla River proposed by the Confederated Tribes of the Umatilla Indian Reservation. The plan is to naturally spawning spring chinook to the Walla Walla River Basin, where they’ve been missing for…
WILDLIFE WATCHING -- Hummingbirds have been known to begin trickling into the Spokane-Coeur d'Alene area as mid-April. If you're gearing up to feed the hummers this season, the Audubon Society, American Bird Conservancy and Cornell Lab of Ornithology offer this advice: Maintaining a backyard hummingbird…
Rich Landers writes and photographs stories and columns for a wide range of outdoors coverage, including Outdoors feature sections on Sunday and Thursday.
