FISHING -- A new four-day spring chinook section on a stretch of the Grande Ronde River is likely to be opened starting Friday. The official announcement and details are likely to be released Wednesday morning. Washington Department of Fish and Wildlife didn't get all the…
FISHING -- Here's a tip of the hat to catch-and-release trout fishing regulations on the upper Spokane River -- and elsewhere for that matter. The value of the rules is documented in this report and photo comparison just received from Sean Visintainer, guide and owner…
WILDLIFE WATCHING -- The annual osprey viewing and banding boat cruise on Lake Coeur d'Alene is set for July 12, the Idaho Fish and Game Department just announced. If you want to go on this popular wildlife educational activity, sign up quick. Last year it…
THREATENED SPECIES -- Wildlife advocates want a federal judge to force the government to move more quickly on a recovery plan for imperiled Canada lynx, according to this story just moved by the Associated Press. The U.S. government declared the snow-loving big cats a threatened…
WILDLIFE WATCHING -- The Blue Mountains delivered a Yellowstone-like wildlife watching experience for hiker Ken Vanden Heuvel of Newman Lake last weekend. He was solo hiking one of the ridge trails that lead into the Wenaha-Tucannon Wilderness when he came across a herd of elk…
FISHING -- Fishing for chinook salmon in the Middle Fork Clearwater, South Fork Clearwater and Lochsa rivers will be closed at the end of fishing hours on Sunday (June 29). This closure marks the end of the spring chinook fishery in the Clearwater Drainage. Since…
WATERSPORTS -- The Spokane River's flows have subsided enough for the spill gates at Post Falls Dam to be closed, Avista Utilities reports. That has allowed river recreation to open for the season starting today in the area between the Spokane Street Bridge and the…
NAVIGATION -- A free Geocaching 101 Class is set for 6:30 p.m. on Wednesday. The class is geared to people who want to learn the basics of the engaging high-tech hide-and-seek game using GPS devices and a World Wide Web full of clues and challenges.…
WILDLIFE WATCHING -- While hiking on a U.S. Bureau of Land Management area south of Sprague in May, Pat Killien discovered a red-tailed hawk nest perched in a 30 foot basalt wall. "I could look down from above or below and be within 15 feet…
Rich Landers writes and photographs stories and columns for a wide range of outdoors coverage, including Outdoors feature sections on Sunday and Thursday.
