FISHING -- The Spokane River will be open to walleye fishing year round starting May 1 and the daily limit in Lake Roosevelt will increase from eight walleye a day to 16. This is just a sampling of the 70 sportfishing rules adopted March 1…
QUOTE OF THE DAY: "It's about time." Florence Vaccarello Dunkel, associate professor of entomology at Montana State University, about a Utah company that is marketing an energy bar made with ground up crickets. - Salt Lake Tribune
HUNTING -- The number of bull permits offered in Idaho’s Unit 11 is expected to drop following recent elk surveys that show a decline in both bulls and calves there, according to Eric Barker of the Lewiston Tribune. The unit south of Lewiston is sometimes…
WINTER SPORTS -- Bummed out because you can't operate your smartphone, iPod Touch or touch-screen GPS unit while wearing gloves? Misery spawns invention. Check out the video above to see how you can keep your fingers warm and still be connected with Agloves.
WILDLIFE -- Minnesota wildlife biologists have a long history with the oldest wild black bear known to be roaming free in the woods (videoed in her den, above). Tagged No. 56 by researchers in 1981, the the 39-year-old sow is still in her winter den…
Rich Landers writes and photographs stories and columns for a wide range of outdoors coverage, including Outdoors feature sections on Sunday and Thursday.