ENDANGERED SPECIES -- A petition seeking to drop woodland caribou as a lost cause for endangered species protections was turned down by the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service today, the Associated Press reports. However, the Fish and Wildlife Service downlisted the caribou from endangered to…
FISHING -- Big numbers of spring chinook are coming and river flows are ideal -- that's a recipe for success in Idaho waters, says Joe Dupont, Idaho Fish and Game Department regional fisheries manager in Lewiston. Although only 21 fish were estimated to have been…
CAMPING -- In case you've forgotten what it's like to camp out under the stars, Spokane photographer Craig Goodwin reminds us by devoting a sleepless night using his camera and recording night sounds at Steamboat Rock State Park. On a recent night-photography outing I made…
MARINE LIFE — A disease that has been killing starfish on the West Coast has been found in Oregon. Oregon Coast Aquarium divers at the entrance to Yaquina Bay on April 27 found starfish with “sea star wasting disease” that causes their arms to fall…
HUNTING -- The largest grizzly bear killed and recorded by a hunter has been entered into the Boone and Crockett record book. The big bruin, taken in 2013 near Fairbanks, Alaska, by Larry Fitzgerald of Fairbanks scores 27-6/16. It missed the world's record mark by…
WILDLIFE -- My Sunday Outdoors stories about the fascinating grouse species of the West were packed with information about these novel birds, but a ton of details litter the editing room floor, so to speak. For example, before they placed GPS transmitters on valuable sage…
Rich Landers writes and photographs stories and columns for a wide range of outdoors coverage, including Outdoors feature sections on Sunday and Thursday.
