FISHING -- It's been a great salmon fishing season on the Hanford Reach of the Columbia River, as anglers have smashed the fall chinook harvest record with a week of fishing remaining in the season. Last week, about 2,465 anglers in the Hanford Reach between…
WILDLIFE -- More than half a century after a group of beavers parachuted into the Idaho backcountry, officials have uncovered footage of the quirky wildlife management moment and digitized the film for YouTube. The Idaho Department of Fish and Game was struggling with an overpopulation...
ENDANGERED SPECIES -- A detailed report on the killing of a collared gray wolf on Eckler Mountain, a Washington portion of the Blue Mountains on Oct. 11 indicates the 9-year-old male in poor condition was approaching a cabin when the owner shot 10 rounds with...
HUNTING -- Washington's first hunter education field skills class designed especially for women and girls is set for Nov. 1 in Black Diamond. The class, the first of its kind offered by the Washington Fish and Wildlife Department specifically for females, is a field skills...
OUTPLAN – Public lands and wilderness experts will gather at the University of Montana this week to present 30 workshops on public lands and wilderness. The seventh-annual National Wilderness Workshop, set in Missoula for the first time, will bring together stakeholders from around the country...
FISHING -- Silver Bow Fly Shop has been filing great reports of fall fishing from the Spokane River and North Idaho trout streams to the steelhead waters of the Clearwater and Grande Ronde. See the reports on the Silver Bow website, along with some useful…
Rich Landers writes and photographs stories and columns for a wide range of outdoors coverage, including Outdoors feature sections on Sunday and Thursday.
