HUNTING -- The well-publicized Montana grizzly bear caught, radio-collared and released to near Idaho on Aug. 4 has been shot and killed by a hunter near Wallace, the Shoshone County Sheriff’s Office has confirmed. The bear was shot Wednesday evening, said Phil Cooper, Idaho Fish...
WILDLIFE — A North Idaho woman who was found guilty in connection to the death of a hunter's trained gyrfalcon has been sentenced to community service. Kootenai County District Court Judge James Stow on Monday ordered 60-year-old Patti MacDonald, of Hauser, to complete 20 hours...
TRAILS -- It was weeds versus we the people at a special meeting called in response to an under-the-public-view attempt to close a portion of the John Wayne rail trail that runs from the Columbia River to the Idaho state line at Tekoa, Washington. Here's...
WILDLIFE -- It's the same disheartening "Fed-bear Dead-bear" story retold this time with an additional little twist of human denial at best, or maybe just stupidity. State wildlife officials have captured and euthanized two food-conditioned black bears west of Kalispell, but they say someone else…
WILDLIFE WATCHING -- An elusive mountain lion took up a very public perch atop a 35-foot utility pole in the California desert this week. The big cat apparently got spooked by a bus of screaming school children and clambered up the wooden power pole Tuesday…
Rich Landers writes and photographs stories and columns for a wide range of outdoors coverage, including Outdoors feature sections on Sunday and Thursday.
