FISHING -- If you can catch them at McDowell Lake this weekend you can keep 'em. The state wants anglers to harvest all the fish they can from the lake in the Little Pend Oreille National Wildlife Refuge southeast of Colville before biologists rehab the…
SKY WATCHING -- The solar activity that put on a light show in the northern skies of the Inland Northwest on Aug. 26 (above) are likely to put on a repeat performance for late night viewers from Seattle through Montana tonight and Saturday. The Aurora…
THREATENED SPECIES -- Montana is trying to head off restrictive endangered species protections for a once abundant prairie species. Montana governor announces sage grouse protection plan On Tuesday, Gov. Steve Bullock announced the plan to protect sage grouse that includes a "no-occupancy" zone for six-tenths…
PREDATORS -- While polarized factions tangle over every messy step of gray wolf reintroduction to the Northern Rockies, wildlife researchers keep putting radio collars on wolves and learning more and more about the species every year. Wolf haters like to hold onto the pre-1995 wolf…
WILDLIFE WATCHING -- Big-game headwear is in the spotlight this week as Montana outdoor photographer Jaimie Johnson gives us a look at what's been developing all summer. The photos (above) of a bull elk plus pronghorn, mule deer and whitetail bucks were snapped this week.…
Rich Landers writes and photographs stories and columns for a wide range of outdoors coverage, including Outdoors feature sections on Sunday and Thursday.
