More than a million acres of private timberlands are being temporarily closed to public access in the Inland northwest because of extreme fire danger. Stimson Lumber Company has closed public access to 350,000 acres in northeastern Washington, North Idaho and western Montana because of dry…
FISHING -- I've written a ton recently about drought conditions, record-low stream flows, considerations for fishing in warm-water conditions and more. Today's rain is wonderful; just what we needed. Streams are cooler. Columbia River sockeye are seeing a thermal doorway opening for upstream passage into...
Rich Landers writes and photographs stories and columns for a wide range of outdoors coverage, including Outdoors feature sections on Sunday and Thursday.
