POACHING -- Washington Fish and Wildlife Police are asking the public for tips to help solve an elk poaching case in Pend Oreille County near Ione. Around midnight on Dec. 2, 2014, a spike bull elk was unlawfully killed by someone using a spotlight and…
WILDLIFE -- While Washington wildlife officials have decided to feed deer this winter near Pateros to keep them from ravaging agricultural areas, the wildfires of 2014 are not forcing the feeding of other deer herds in the formerly charred lands in Okanogan region. Rain and…
WILDLIFE RESEARCH -- Washington Department of Fish and Wildlife biologists recently battled difficult weather to capture 28 moose and put radio collars on 24 moose in northeastern Washington. That brings the total to more than 50 collared moose involved in the state's first major study…
WILDLIFE – Washington wildlife officials are temporarily feeding deer to protect orchards in the Pateros area but they say widespread feeding of Okanogan County mule deer is not needed at this time. Here's the report from the Washington Department of Fish and Wildlife: Northcentral regional…
WILDLIFE WATCHING -- Disease that's ravaged wild sheep in parts of Washington, Idaho and Montana in recent years has shown up in one of America's most prized wildlife preserves. A pneumonia outbreak has killed at least ten bighorn sheep near Yellowstone National Park. Montana Fish…
HUNTING -- An Idaho man has been sentenced to 2 years’ probation after Idaho Fish and Game officials said he illegally killed a grizzly bear. The Idaho Department of Fish and Game announced the conviction on Monday, saying it was the first time the state…
WILDLIFE -- Eighteen grizzly bears have been killed in encounters with humans in north-central Montana this year, but none had to be destroyed by wardens because they became troublesome, state and federal experts said at a recent conference in Missoula. The statistics were disclosed last…
FISHING — News out of Jackson, Wyo., is startling at first -- Trout numbers on the Snake River below Palisades Reservoir declined an estimated 32 percent during the past year. But don't cancel you plans to make a fly fishing float trip there next season.…
Rich Landers writes and photographs stories and columns for a wide range of outdoors coverage, including Outdoors feature sections on Sunday and Thursday.
