HIKING — Growing numbers of hikers on the Pacific Crest Trail, the Mexico-to-Canada route made increasingly popular by the movie “Wild,” have led officials to take steps to alleviate traffic. The Pacific Crest Trail Association announced on Wednesday a new permitting system that will limit...
WATERSPORTS -- Private power boaters are switching from a call-in system to an online reservation system for the Main Salmon Wild and Scenic River this year. The change to the National Recreation Reservation Service website was made last year for power boats on the Snake…
WILDLIFE -- Wildlife officials have tallied a 24 percent increase in the size of an elk herd that migrates between Yellowstone National Park and Montana. But they say it’s too soon to know if the change marks a turnaround for a population long in decline....
NATIONAL FORESTS -- National forests across the country, including the Colville National Forest, are still filling summer job positions. The currently available jobs in northeastern Washington are temporary summer positions that start in the late spring or early summer and typically last until the fall,…
WILDLIFE WATCHING -- As hard as they are to find during hunting season, here's proof that a few elk survived the guns, highways and wolves of Western Montana. Montana outdoor photographer Jaime Johnson counted more than 450 elk in four herds along winter range areas...
Rich Landers writes and photographs stories and columns for a wide range of outdoors coverage, including Outdoors feature sections on Sunday and Thursday.
