HUNTING -- Some Washington hunters will be celebrating tonight. Others will be crying in their beer. Results of the state's big-game special permit drawings for deer, elk and moose, etc., are available online. You'll need your WILD ID and you'll have to remember your birth…
WATERSPORTS -- The season's barely begun and already two drownings have been reported from private rafting trips on Idaho's Salmon River. Neither victim was wearing a lifejacket on the RIVER OF NO RETURN, which, forgive me for being honest, is inexcusable.
PUBLIC LANDS -- The Colville National Forest is moving ahead with a 10- to 15-year project to plan off-road vehicle trails and relocate camping areas to serve the motorized trail groups while rehabilitating the impacts illegal OHV use has had on streams, meadows and wildlife…
ENVIRONMENT -- The Heartland is no longer the land of milkweed and honey for monarchs. Study links farming methods in U.S. to rapid decline of Monarch butterflies A new study published last week in the Journal of Animal Ecology said a change in farming practices…
WILDLIFE WATCHING -- I was minding my own business running through the woods near my South Side house this morning at 5:30 a.m. with my dog when the yearling bull moose started chasing us. Your bucket list isn't complete unless you've had that thrilling experience.…
WILDLIFE WATCHING -- A wildlife population explosion takes place around this time every year and anyone can stumble onto a baby critter virtually anywhere outside. "Wild bird and mammal species typically produce young in the spring and early summer," says Phil Cooper of the Idaho…
RIVERS -- Whitewater river rafter Tanner Grant floated the Moyie River in North Idaho over the weekend and made this video documentary of the run from Meadow Creek to Moyie Dam at 2,300 cfs -- that's 4 feet at the dam. The 8-minute video is…
FISHING -- At the end of fishing hours on Thursday June 12, the fishing harvest season will close for adult Chinook Salmon (24 inches or longer) on the Clearwater River between the Orofino Bridge and the South Fork Clearwater. The Idaho Fish and Game Department…
Rich Landers writes and photographs stories and columns for a wide range of outdoors coverage, including Outdoors feature sections on Sunday and Thursday.