PUBLIC LANDS -- I loathe this campaign just as much as I despise other greedy efforts to rob Americans of their public lands heritage. Idaho official garners support for public lands group GRANGEVILLE (AP) — An Idaho official is trying to garner support from counties…
CLIMBING -- Among several recent search and rescue operations in the region to aid hapless hikers and climbers, Sunday's mission on Mount Hood rises to the top. A woman whose leg was broken by rockfall was rescued by a National Guard HH-60M Black Hawk crew...
WILD FIRES -- With last year's Carlton Complex fires still heavy in the memories of locals as well as visitors and anglers, fire officials say they’re concerned that big wildfires already are popping up this summer in North Central Washington. Over the weekend, firefighters battled...
PUBLIC LANDS -- A tip from elk hunters has led to prosecution of a Walla Walla man for landing his private aircraft in the Wenha-Tucannon Wilderness, where motor vehicle use is prohibited. Brent Dawson of Walla Walla, Washington recently plead guilty to illegally landing his...
FISHING -- Good fishing reports are coming in from far and wide. Here's the latest on Omak Lake on the Colville Indian Reservation from Anton Jones of Darrell & Dad's Guide Service: On Omak the fish are coming off the spawn and biting like crazy!...
HUNTING – A nonresident hunter has been ordered to pay more than $2,300 for mistakenly shooting and killing a grizzly bear in northwestern Montana. That's a light fine for killing a protected big-game species, likely the result of the hunter's cooperation in the case. Richard…
INVASIVE SPECIES -- A workshop on aquatic plant identification will be presented at 2 p.m. on Thursday, June 18, at the Community Water Resource Center, 1031 N. Academic Way in Coeur d'Alene. This is billed as a hands-on experience to learn more about the plant...
PUBLIC LANDS -- As I watch the landscape turn brown during this drought, I can't help but notice the knapweed and skeleton weed look green and unscathed. Too bad elk and deer don't thrive on noxious weeds because... Noxious weeds gaining ground on federal lands...
TRAILS -- About 100 volunteers turned out Sunday to brave the heat and dust as they put their muscle into upgrading Trail 100 in Riveside State Park, said Carol Christensen, Outreach coordinator for REI Spokane. Partner organizations included Washington Trails Association, Backcountry Horsemen, Spokane Mountaineers,...
OUTDOOR CHARITIES -- Motorcyclists are organizing a charity ride on Saturday, June 20, out of Spokane to support Youth Outdoors Unlimited, a Washington-based non-profit that provides guided hunting or fishing adventures to youth with a life-threatening illness or physical disability. The poker run, based out...
HUNTING -- Montana officials want to use an aggressive public hunting campaign to kill off a diseased herd of 30-40 bighorn sheep in the Tendoy Mountains southeast of Dillon. State wildlife commissioners on Thursday gave preliminary approval to a plan to remove the Tendoy herd…
CLIMBING -- The father of a missing climber apparently found dead on Mount Rainier says his son had a passion for climbing and the outdoors, the Associated Press reports. Searchers Saturday recovered a body believed to be that of 25-year-old Kyle Bufis, formerly of Maple…
WILDLIFE — U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service staffers are working to draw conclusions from about 3,000 comments accumulated this year on a plan to restore grizzly bears to the North Cascades. The Seattle Times reports that after public meetings in six cities an environmental-impact statement…
HUNTING -- Western Washington Hunter Education Instructor Steve Mills has been named the 2014 International Hunter Education Association Volunteer Instructor of the Year. Mills, of Toledo, Wash., was named this year’s recipient of the award at the 2015 IHEA-USA Annual Conference in Des Moines, Iowa.…
FISHING -- For the fourth year, hatchery crews will be stocking 10,000 large rainbow trout in 20 lakes just before Father’s Day weekend, June 20 and 21, the the Washington Department of Fish and Wildlife says. Two of the lakes are near Spokane. All of…
FISHING – An 18.49-pound tiger trout caught May 5 from Bonaparte Lake near Tonasket is a pending state record. Kelly Flaherty, 53, of Priest River hooked the lunker 10 feet from shore on what he said was going to be the last cast of a...
WATERSPORTS -- Jonah Grubb of Coeur d'Alene didn't have to worry about taking a bath on the recent day he guided rafters through the Grand Canyon's notoriously wet and wild Lava Falls rapid. This amazing helmet cam video documents the deep hole the raft plunged...
SHOOTING -- It's one thing to be a good trapshooter. It's another to have the concentration and endurance to bust a clay target a second for an entire hour. And never mind the distractions of the cheering crowd and the thunderstorm. Here's the story from…
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…
Rich Landers writes and photographs stories and columns for a wide range of outdoors coverage, including Outdoors feature sections on Sunday and Thursday.
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