WILDLIFE -- The Mule Deer Foundation’s Spokane Chapter will hold its annual local fundraising banquet Saturday, April 11, with dinner starting at 6 p.m. at Mukogawa Fort Wright Commons, 4000 W. Randolph Rd. The foundation’s Washington chapters have put nearly 150 percent of the money...
FISHERIES -- While most anglers are thinking of the spring chinook heading upstream in the Columbia and Snake Rivers, water managers are thinking of young salmon that need a boost get get downstream through reservoirs to the ocean. To help young fish pass the dams…
PUBLIC LANDS -- It's gratifying to know that I'm not the only one who thinks Idaho would benefit by having a national park. Idaho should have new national park in place for NPS's 100th celebration It's unfortunate the Idaho House couldn't support the Idaho Senate's…
POACHING -- A clueless landowner, who described deer on his property as "rodents," has been charged with shooting and killing more than 30 deer over several years and leaving them to rot on his property near Thorpe, Washington. According to the Daily Record, the man...
FISHING -- A new Spokane River boat access capable of taking out drift boats appears to have gotten the financial nudge it needed, thanks to an evening of fishing films at the Bing Crosby Theater last month. More than 425 people turned out for the...
HIKING – The 49th Annual Buttercup Hike in the Dishman Hills Natural Area is set for Saturday, April 11, starting at 1 p.m. from Camp Caro, 625 S. Sargent Rd. The three-hour educational walking tour will be led by Michael Hamilton, former Dishman Hills Conservancy...
CYCLING -- Thirteen years after a brutal crash when his bike broke in half (see video of crash), Frenchman Eric Barone, 54, broke his own mountain bike downhill speed record on a nearly vertical snow track in Vars, France, according to a report on bike.com.
Rich Landers writes and photographs stories and columns for a wide range of outdoors coverage, including Outdoors feature sections on Sunday and Thursday.
