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,…
CLIMBING -- When I watched Robyn Erbesfield's chiseled body defy gravity at Wild Walls for a profile story I wrote in 1996, I should have assumed that any children she might eventually produce would have the genetics to become a good climber. I underestimated her.…
Rich Landers writes and photographs stories and columns for a wide range of outdoors coverage, including Outdoors feature sections on Sunday and Thursday.
