HUNTING -- Jim Zumbo, former hunting writer for Outdoor Life magazine, will visit Lewiston Saturday, June 13, to attend Jack O’Connor Day -- a celebration in honor of another famous Outdoor Life hunting scribe. The event starts at 10 a.m. and lasts until 3 p.m.…
FISHING --The Grande Ronde River will open to chinook fishing Saturday, June 13, in both Washington and Oregon. In Washington, anglers can fish from a point one-half mile downstream of Boggan’s Oasis upstream to the Oregon/Washington state line. In Oregon, the season will be open…
CLIMBING -- Mount Rainier park rangers are searching for a climber missing on Liberty Ridge above 14,000 feet, the Associated Press reports. Park spokeswoman Patti Wold says the climber went missing as his group of three was descending the mountain in high winds and low...
NATURE -- Scottish naturalist David Douglas worked climbing adventures into his quest to document plant species, such as the Douglas fir, says Jack Nisbet, Spokane author and historian. Nisbet will elaborate in a free public presentation, “David Douglas the Mountaineer,” at 7 p.m. Monday June...
HUNTING -- Wolves are legal to hunting Idaho during specified seasons and with the proper hunting tags. As with other game hunting, it's against the law to break the rules. A North Idaho man who shot and killed a wolf on Dec. 30 found this...
HUNTING -- Time for celebration and despair! Hunters who submitted applications for 2015 special-hunt permits can check the results of this year’s drawing on the Washington Department of Fish and Wildlife website. The results of the random, computerized drawing were verified June 11 and are...
WILDLIFE -- The annual distribution of pheasant chicks by the Inland Northwest Wildlife Council was a hit this year. Organizer Larry Carey said the council distributed 5,881 chicks from Little Canyon pheasant farm to people who paid a small fee for transportation and promised to…
FISHING – The 9,689 sockeye counted at Bonneville Dam through June 10 is a record since at least 1938 and outpacing the former record of 7,308 fish counted in 2012. The 2012 total return to the Columbia was 521,00 fish. At this time last year,…
PUBLIC LANDS -- Forcing outfitters with federal public land permits to pay seasonal staff at least $10.10 an hour would put some river guide services under water, send some horse-riding operations down the trail and let the air out of the tires of bicycle tour...
Rich Landers writes and photographs stories and columns for a wide range of outdoors coverage, including Outdoors feature sections on Sunday and Thursday.