ENDANGERED SPECIES -- "That's no coyote, and it doesn't look like a dog," said Al Dolomont, recounting his thoughts after he'd driven past a road-killed animal today on U.S. Highway 2. His friend, Lynda Andrew, told him to turn around because she thought she saw...
WINTER WILDLIFE -- Who ever thought ice climbers would need bear spray? Who could have known that bears would be prowling around the meager snow pack and forcing food storage restrictions to stay in place into January? Following are two recent cases that leave us...
FISHING -- Hog Canyon and Fourth of July lakes -- two area winter fishing lakes -- opened Friday and anglers are finding some bright, feisty rainbows. Traditionally, the winter lakes have opened Dec. 1, but this year the Washington Department of Fish and Wildlife began...
FISHING -- While Washington fish managers are still evaluating the impacts of poor Columbia River sockeye spawning numbers this season, Idaho is upbeat. Despite the smallest return of Snake River adult sockeye salmon since 2007, Idaho Department of Fish and Game reports the Eagle Fish…
FISHING -- Sobering numbers from the drought-ravaged 2015 Columbia River sockeye salmon run have been released by the Washington Department of Fish and Wildlife: Of the 512,000 sockeye that returned to the mouth of the Columbia this summer, Fisheries and Oceans Canada staff report only...
NATURE -- Hazen Audel, a former Ferris High School biology teacher and more recently the host of NatGeo TV's Survive the Tribe, will present a program in Spokane this week entitled “Fascinating Stories of Natural History and the People that Live Along Side Them.” The…
Rich Landers writes and photographs stories and columns for a wide range of outdoors coverage, including Outdoors feature sections on Sunday and Thursday.