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…
WILDLIFE -- A mysterious hoof disease that's been crippling significant numbers of elk in southwestern Washington for at least six years has prompted the Washington Department of Fish and Wildlife to begin organizing a survey for this summer. Staff likely will euthanize elk with severe…
HIKING -- Although the official announcement still wasn't released this morning, friends on Sunday mourned a well-known outdoors writer and photographer who had been missing for three days in Mount Rainier National Park before searchers said they recovered a body of a woman. The National…
Updated 1 p.m. with more details. HUNTING -- The Oregon Fish and Wildlife plans to ask state residents to share their opinions about using lead ammunition for hunting. A survey is being mailed this month to a random sample of 4,200 hunters in the state.…
HIKING -- Phil Hough and Deb Hunsicker celebrated the summer solstice by checking out the Grouse Mountain Trail in the Cabinet Mountains for an upcoming project by the Idaho Trails Association. They couldn't resist to going all the way to the summit of the 5,980-foot…
WILDLIFE WATCHING -- Local birder/photographer Ron Dexter caught this wild turkey hen marching a newly hatched brood of eight chicks near his property at the foothills of Mount Spokane on Sunday. Looks like they got through last week's cold and rain just fine.
SKILLS – The Washington Outdoor Women annual fall workshop, for adult women and girls age 9-12, will feature activities such as fishing, hunting and outdoor-skills clinics near North Bend Sept. 12-14. Volunteer instructors will guide the sessions at Camp Waskowitz, including four biologists from the…
PUBLIC LANDS -- A group of volunteer advisers are getting ready to help the Colville National Forest plan for spending $580,000 allocated for use in Ferry, Stevens and Pend Oreille counties for ecosystem-enhancing projects. The Colville Resource Advisory Committee (RAC) will meet Tuesday, July 01,…
CYCLING -- Mountain bike skills taught CYCLING – Mountain bike skills classes with certified coaches are being offered this summer at Camp Sekani by Evergreeneast.org. Classes cover the fundamentals of balance, body positions, cornering, switch backs, obstacles and more. The first class is for Intermediates,…
PUBLIC LANDS -- A new Cabinet Mountains Wilderness map, highlighting about 80 trails, has been published by conservation groups celebrating the 50th anniversary of the Wilderness Act. “The last Forest Service wilderness map, published in 1992, is out of print and almost impossible to find,”…
ENDANGERED SPECIES -- Two female grizzly bears have been transplanted from the Whitefish Range to the Spar Lake area of the Cabinet Mountains as part of an ongoing effort to boost the struggling Cabinet-Yaak grizzly bear population. The 2-year-old siblings were captured in the Deadhorse…
WILDLIFE WATCHING -- See an eagle fly to freedom today, and marvel at a marvelous habitat for wildlife in North Idaho.
WATERSPORTS -- The level of Lake Roosevelt was 1287.70 feet above sea level today and is expected to remain in the range of 1286 - 1288 for the next week, the U.S. Bureau of Reclamation reports. Spill may occur intermittently. Full pool behind Grand Coulee…
PUBLIC LANDS -- National Park Service lands across the United States, including the agency's national recreation areas such as Lake Roosevelt, are being ordered to prohibit launching, landing, or operating unmanned aircraft on lands and waters, according to a policy memorandum to park superintendents signed…
PUBLIC LANDS -- The entire Wenas Wildlife Area has been closed to target shooting until Oct. 1 after several wildfires have burned the property near Ellensburg, the Washington Department of Fish and Wildlife announced today. The closure bans target shooting 24 hours a day at…
STATE PARKS -- A hut geared primarily for snowshoers at Mount Spokane is well on its way to being completed for the next winter season. Nora Searing, above, and Cris Currie of the Friends of Mount Spokane State Park were working on the hut Thursday,…
PREDATORS -- The bottom line is that state's can't afford to continue spending millions of dollars to monitor wolf populations. There has to be an easier more affordable way. Montana researchers come up with a new way to count wolves Montana Fish, Wildlife and Parks'…
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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