ENDANGERED SPECIES -- Stevens County Commissioners have unanimously passed a resolution that hammers Washington Department of Fish and Wildlife managers for failing to protect people, wildlife and livestock from wolves that are naturally recolonizing the region. The resolution (attached) stems from the Huckleberry Pack attacks…
FISHING -- Although it's clearly a gigantic run -- and still likely to be a record -- the size of the 2014 run of fall chinook heading up the Columbia River was officially downgraded from its earlier forecast today. Washington and Oregon fish managers issued…
FLY FISHING -- I've heard some people say the water's still too warm in the Grande Ronde River to attract steelhead upstream from the Snake. Fly fishing guide Sean Visintainer of Silver Bow Fly Shop is putting that myth to bed this week, as you…
HUNTING -- A pronghorn killed by New Mexico trophy hunter Mike Gallo’s has been certified this month by the Boone and Crockett Club as the new world record. Gallo shot the animal, often called an antelope, in Socorro County, New Mexico, in September 2013. It's…
PUBLIC LANDS -- Federal land managers offer free entry to parks, forests, U.S. Bureau of Land management lands, refuges and other national interest lands where fees are charged on certain holidays scattered through the year. Washington State Parks also sets dates for fee-free entry. The…
Rich Landers writes and photographs stories and columns for a wide range of outdoors coverage, including Outdoors feature sections on Sunday and Thursday.
