SHOOTING -- Hunters preparing their firearms for upcoming big-game seasons have a new option this year -- the revamped range at Farragut State Park near Athol, Idaho. The 100-yard Farragut Shooting Range reopened on June 1 after several years of closure while Idaho Fish and…
MOUNTAIN STORMS -- If you haven’t read Norman Maclean’s “USFS 1919: The Ranger, the Cook and a Hole in the Sky,” Eric Barker of the Lewiston Tribune recommends it, and so do I. It is one of the “other stories” in his book “A River…
PUBLIC LANDS -- Federal land managers offer free entry to parks, forests, U.S. Bureau of Land management lands, refuges and other national interest lands where fees are charged on certain holidays scattered through the year. The next freebie is Sept. 28 -- National Public Lands…
SALMON FISHING -- The 2013 fall chinook salmon run heading up the Columbia has been setting daily records for the past 10 days, and today it surpassed the overall record for the biggest run of salmon or steelhead to head upstream since counting began at…
HUNTING -- "Is it dead, yet?" Maybe that's a question you need to ask if your hunting buddy calls and asks for help packing out his bear. From the Associated Press: KALISPELL, Mont. — Montana wildlife officials say a black bear wounded by a bow…
NAVIGATION – A day of orienteering classes and activities geared to novices is set for Sept. 21 to celebrate National Orienteering Week at the Gonzaga University campus. Orienteering is a wild-land navigation race in which participants use a map and a compass to complete a…
HUNTING -- Disabled hunters can sign up through Sept. 30 for a lottery to access roads otherwise closed to the public on the Coeur d'Alene River Ranger District. Applicants must come to the Smelterville or Fernan offices in person with a Handicapped Person's Motor Vehicle…
BOATING -- The Spokane Parks and Recreation Board apparently has reached an agreement with the Spokane Public Facilities District that may assure maintaining a viable boat take-out point under the Division Street Bridge after the voter-approved $55 million Convention Center expansion project is finished. The…
TRAILS – Idaho state Rep. Mat Erpelding, D-Boise, hasn’t given up his plan to travel the length of Idaho this fall by muscle power to promote trails, experience rural areas and raise funds for the Redside Foundation that supports the health of Idaho guides. But…
SALMON FISHING -- With more upriver fall chinook salmon returning to the Columbia River than any time in the past 75 years, Washington and Oregon fishery managers are expanding sport fishing options below Bonneville Dam beginning Friday, Sept. 13. "This will be a fishing season…
FISHING -- Meanwhile in the Snake River -- anglers are praying for cooler weather and rain to break the apparent thermal block that's keeping steelhead from moving up through the Snake River past Lower Granite Dam.
SALMON FISHING -- It's not a run of fall chinook coming up the Columbia River this season, it's a stampede. On Tuesday, regional fish managers upped their forecast for this year's fall chinook returns to 835,000 adult upriver brights reaching Bonneville Dam, which would smash…
UPDATE: Sept. 12 at 8 p.m.: Tentative agreement reached on Spokane River boat access at Division Street. RIVERS -- Plans for the voter funded $55-$65 million expansion of the Spokane Convention Center are advancing to the construction stage, but Public Facilities District officials continue to…
FLY FISHING -- Put some purpose in your fishing by joining a field of 30 anglers for the Bitterroot Valley Cast One for Hope single fly fishing competition. The Oct. 4-5 event is a fundraiser to benefit Casting for Recovery, a non-profit organization offering support…
FISHING -- Lake Roosevelt anglers should note a potential conflict for fishing out of Spring Canyon Campground area on Sept. 21, the day of the 10th annual Grand Columbian Triathlon Super Tri. Triathletes and supporters will be camping at the site on Friday. Swim events…
FISHING -- Weather's good and the word's out about fly fishing for cutthroat trout on Idaho's St. Joe River. An angler at the Inland Empire Fly Fishing Club's monthly meeting last night said that upon returning to the Spokane area Tuesday from a few days…
INVASIVE SPECIES -- An Independent Economic Advisory Board update released last week indicates that the money spent – an estimated $5 million per year from a variety of sources -- in attempts to ward off an invasion of non-native zebra and quagga mussels into the…
TOURNAMENT FISHING -- Brandon Palaniuk of Rathdrum, Idaho, is one of four anglers selected by fan voting to compete among 14 anglers in the Bassmaster Toyota All-Star Week starting Sept. 27 on Muskegon Lake, Mich. Not only that, he's the favorite of the favorites. This…
WILDLIFE -- The only moose herd in Oregon appears to have doubled in size in recent years, despite deaths in recent years from a parasite. The Oregonian says the herd numbers about 60 animals today, compared to 30 in 2006. The carotid worm problem was…
FISHING -- A Native American treaty gillnetter caught a striped bass above The Dalles Dam on Sept. 6, the farthest up the Columbia River the species has been documented. A striper was photographed moving uptream at Bonneville Dam in mid-June. Perhaps it's the same one?…
HUNTING -- Ducks Unlimited is offering a barbecue lunch for youth waterfowl hunters and their parents/chaperones at Mar Don Resort, Potholes Reservoir, on Youth Waterfowl Hunt Day, Saturday, Sept. 21, from 11 a.m. until 2 p.m. Each of the first 48 youth, who is registered…
UPDATED at 11:35 a.m. SALMON FISHING -- In case you haven't been paying attention, a huge run of fall chinook is heading up the Columbia and Snake Rivers. If you need more evidence, here it is: 63,870 adult fall chinook were counted at Bonneville Dam…
HUNTING -- The California Senate on Monday passed legislation to protect the state’s condors, eagles and other wildlife from lead poisoning by requiring the use of nonlead ammunition for all hunting by 2019. Assembly Bill 711 passed by a vote of 23-15 after being approved…
OUTDOOR TRAVEL -- It's been a rough summer for the North Cascades Highway, and travelers visiting the many trailheads and scenic attractions the route accesses through North Cascades National Park. A short stretch of the prized stretch of Highway 20 near Rainy Pass is closed…
FLY FISHING -- Sean Visintainer of Silver Bow Fly Shop will detail fishing methods for local waters, including the St. Joe, Coeur d’Alene and Spokane rivers, in a free program, 7 p.m., Wednesday, Sept. 11,. at St. Francis School, 1104 W. Heroy. The event is…
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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