WINTERSPORTS -- A Hayden man's extreme skiing video has won an online competition for viewer votes this week, launching him and two freeriding buddies from the training grounds of Schweitzer Mountain Resort to the slopes of New Zealand's Mount Cook for the World Heli Challenge…
UPDATED 1:30 p.m. with response to rancher from Conservation Northwest. ENDANGERED SPECIES -- Following in this post is a just-released statement from northeastern Washington rancher Dave Dashiell regarding his experience with the Huckleberry wolf pack on private timber company ground he leased for grazing this…
PUBLIC LANDS -- The Nez Perce-Clearwater National Forest is extending the scoping comment period on the Proposed Action for Forest Plan Revision until Nov. 14. “We’ve received requests for an extension from a number of people and we want to make sure the public has…
WATERSPORTS -- The annual fall drawdown of Lake Coeur d’Alene will begin today, Avista officials say. The lake will be gradually lowered about a foot from full pool elevation of 2,128 feet by Sept. 30. The drawdown will continue an additional 1.5 feet a month…
TRAILS – An access to South Hill bluff trails at 57th Avenue and Hatch Road is set to be closed this week. The area is large enough for a dozen vehicles and is popular with hikers and bikers as well as people looking for unobscured…
WILDLIFE -- State agencies and conservation groups have closed a $1.55 million deal to secure 2,893 acres of wildlife habitat especially important to the Yakima elk herd. The Washington Department of Fish and Wildlife announced Friday that the deal was made to purchase the private…
ENDANGERED SPECIES -- Stevens County livestock producers say it's a bad precedent to allow sheep-eating wolves to force livestock off private land. But that appears to be what happened over the weekend. After at least 24 sheep were killed by the Huckleberry wolf pack since…
Rich Landers writes and photographs stories and columns for a wide range of outdoors coverage, including Outdoors feature sections on Sunday and Thursday.
