HUNTING -- As with any athlete, you can't expect to put a good bird dog in the field without weeks of training for the season. With just 10 weeks until the opening of the forest grouse season, time's a-wasting. I had my English setter, Scout,…
FISHING – Rock Lake is being planted this week with 255,000 steelhead from Washington hatcheries connected to a wild fish lawsuit that prevents their release in Puget Sound streams. The fish are 6-8 inches long and should be a big boost fishing at the Whitman...
PARKS – Proposals for managing a 280-acre “Trautman” addition to Riverside State Park will be discussed in a public workshop, 6:30 p.m., Thursday, June 25, at 6:30 p.m. at Lakeside Middle School Auditorium, 6169 Highway 291, Nine Mile Falls. Directions: https://goo.gl/maps/kPP5E Management objectives to be…
Rich Landers writes and photographs stories and columns for a wide range of outdoors coverage, including Outdoors feature sections on Sunday and Thursday.