WILDLIFE WATCHING -- While bears have a well-known taste for huckleberries, they also cash in on other fruits. This black bear sow appears to be giving its cub a lesson in the nutritional benefits of eating chokecherries, according to this great photo snapped this week…
PUBLIC LANDS -- This is bad news for the beginning of the college party season on the Snake River: The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers temporarily closed the Illia Dunes beach and adjacent shallow waters today after routine water testing there showed elevated levels of…
PUBLIC LANDS — National Park Service officials say July 2014 was the busiest that Glacier National Park has ever seen. The park service’s statistics office says nearly 700,000 people visited the northwestern Montana park last month. The previous record for July was just shy of…
ENDANGERED SPECIES -- The Washington Department of Fish and Wildlife has confirmed that one or more wolves from the Huckleberry Pack in southern Stevens County killed 12 sheep Aug. 11 and two more Aug. 12 on private property off the Springdale-Hunters Road. The attack just…
CYCLING -- A year after its completion, Whitefish Mountain Resort’s Kashmir Trail has been named a model “Flow Trail” by the International Mountain Biking Association. The route is among 30 miles of downhill and cross-country trails at the Whitefish Bike Park. Once a year, IMBA…
HUNTING -- Organizers of a disputed predator derby aimed at killing wolves in central Idaho are asking for a five-year permit to hold the contest. The Idaho Mountain Express reports the group called Idaho for Wildlife applied with the Bureau of Land Management for a…
FISHING -- Hundreds of adult chinook salmon needed to create future generations have been killed after rainstorms sent sediment into a fish trap on the South Fork of the Salmon River in central Idaho. Officials tell the Idaho Statesman that the loss means significantly fewer…
CYCLING -- Whether you want to stay close to Spokane or travel across borders to new terrain, August and September offer a huge assortment of organized bicycling events to pique your interest in pedaling. Of note coming up: Tour de Lentil metric century, Aug. 23:…
Rich Landers writes and photographs stories and columns for a wide range of outdoors coverage, including Outdoors feature sections on Sunday and Thursday.
