ENDANGERED SPECIES -- The California Department of Fish and Wildlife announced today that wildlife biologists have been tracking a gray wolf that has likely dispersed from Oregon into Siskiyou County in northern California. The presence of this new wolf – whose sex and specific origins...
HUNTING -- Resident and nonresident hunters can buy remaining nonresident big-game tags as second tags for discounted prices of $199 for deer and $350 for elk, Idaho Fish and Game Department officials announced last week. The discount is being offered only during August. In September,…
ENVIRONMENT -- The Sierra Club is making some good points, backed by science and history, regarding the current trended toward allowing oil drilling into waters that would impact the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge. I've been there to see it first hand, and have followed the…
FISHING -- The late Fenton Roskelley, Spokane newspaper outdoor writer for 45 years, would be floating higher than a freshly-treated dry fly to learn than his rods, reels and other fly fishing gear were used last week -- during his grandson's honeymoon. "Grandpa would be...
Rich Landers writes and photographs stories and columns for a wide range of outdoors coverage, including Outdoors feature sections on Sunday and Thursday.