PUBLIC LANDS - Here's a new road closure notice from the Cle Elum Ranger District that could impact elk hunters setting up camps before the modern rifle season opens next weekend: Due to a scheduling conflict with the paving company, Forest Service Road Number 33,…
FISHING -- My story today on the thinking behind fly pattern selection for the annual Jackson Hole One Fly Tournament has prompted several anglers to contact me with their top choices if they could fish with only one fly or lure. So far, I've heard…
WILDLIFE WATCHING -- Here's the latest of several disturbing reports about the impact this year's drought is having on bears. Grizzlies in Greater Yellowstone dying at a rate of 1 every 2 days Forty-six grizzly bears have died this year in the Greater Yellowstone Ecosystem,…
WILDLIFE -- After decades of federal protection, the Columbian white-tailed deer could be reclassified from “endangered” to “threatened." The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, in its proposal, is characterizing the move as a success story, saying conservation efforts under the Endangered Species Act have helped...
WINTERSPORTS – Used gear will be coming out of closets for great deals at annual ski- and winter-gear swaps. The following fundraisers help finance area ski patrols and racers: UPDATED for 2015 • 49 Degrees North Ski Patrol Ski Swap, Northeast Washington Fairgrounds in Colville,…
WILDLIFE WATCHING -- Spokane is a remarkable city for many reasons, including the perk of being able to pass deer on the way to the office each morning just four blocks from Monroe and Riverside in downtown Spokane. Got my day off to a good...
READINESS -- The Spokane Mountaineers have openings in a certified Wilderness First Aid course scheduled for Saturday and Sunday, Oct. 24-25, based out of the club's chalet at Mount Spokane. Wilderness First Aid is an intensive 16-hour course geared especially to people who participate in…
WILDLIFE -- It's been a rough year for bears as they've tried to navigate fires and find food in a bad berry year complicated by drought. A well-publicized collared grizzly bear was shot by a hunter near Wallace. Details on that case still have not...
CAMPING -- The award for the most clueless campers in Idaho go to the boobs who left without fully extinguishing their campfires causing wildfires to spring up on the Idaho Panhandle National Forests over the weekend. See the story here. That would be inexcusable even…
FISHING -- Noticing the heavy fly-fishing activity on the Clearwater River recently, Idaho Fish and Game Department fisheries biologist Jaime Robertson is warning anglers about a planned surge of water that could catch anglers -- especially wading anglers -- by surprise. Between 8 a.m. and…
HUNTING -- Answering an appeal filed by eight wildlife-protection groups, Gov. Jay Inslee has struck down increases in cougar hunting quotas approved for this year by the Washington Fish and Wildlife Commission. Inslee said an amendment proposed at the April commission meeting to increase cougar...
deer park 88 hunters, 19 whitetails, 3 mule deer also bobcat and blackbear. chattaroy, 74 hunters with 13 whitetails, 1 moose and waterfowl for both, al four mule deer bucks dp: 10 bucks and 9 does chat 7 bucks, 5 does 1 fwan all 14...
FISHING -- The salmon are getting a little darker and the opening of more hunting seasons is reducing the pressure -- but the fishing success is even better for the record-setting run of chinook into the Hanford Reach of the Columbia. Here's the report for…
CONSERVATION -- The fifth-annual Reforest Spokane effort organized by The Lands Council will channel volunteers to several areas around town for a morning of tree planting on Saturday, Oct. 24. Sites are being selected to provide shade along stream banks to cool water for fish,…
TRAILS -- The Spokane City Council tonight voted 7-0 in favor of a resolution supporting maintaining the integrity of the 253-mile John Wayne Trail along the abandoned railway across Eastern Washington. The vote stems from a legislative attempt to privatize the state-owned rail trail and...
WILDLIFE -- It's not a perfect ending, but at least it's a happy one to the unsettling story -- Orphaned cougar kittens have sobering tale -- reported in Sunday Outdoors. The two emaciated cougar kittens were reported along the highway near the Grande Ronde...
WILDLIFE -- A Virginia woman has come to Idaho's Capital City to sacrifice herself at the Governor's office in the name of wolves. I'm not sure what her complaint is -- Idaho boasts one of the most successful endangered species reintroduction efforts in U.S. history,…
WILDLIFE -- Everyone who appreciates wildlife can appreciate attempts to protect endangered species from poaching, even critters halfway around the world from where we live. But that doesn't mean we have to vote for a law that will do nothing more than be a pain...
OUTDEAL – Once again, fifth-grade students are being treated like royalty at most Inland Northwest ski resorts, with free skiing and other discounts. The Fifth Grade Ski or Ride Free Passport costs $20, entitles students to three free lift tickets at each of the participating…
FISHING -- The bounty of salmon moving upstream and over Priest Rapids Dam has prompted fish managers to give anglers more chance to harvest fall chinook starting Saturday in the upper Columbia River. Here are the details just posted by the Washington Department of Fish…
WILDLIFE WATCHING -- The black bear that Washington Fish and Wildlife officers are currently attempting to catch in North Spokane is another indicator that the 2015 drought has left some wildlife short on food. The bear is in a neighborhood near Nevada and Lyons. Officers...
PUBLIC LANDS -- Wildfires that stormed through the Colville Indian Reservation toward Republic this summer leaped through some prized Forest Service campgrounds and Long Lake, a fly-fishing only trout fishery. But not all was lost. "The campgrounds at Swan, Long and Ferry all received low...
FOR THE DOGS -- I'm suffering a little medal envy after reading today's news of the latest hero in Washington. Washington Gov. Jay Inslee has given one of his Washingtonian of the Day medals to a dog. What yanks my leash is that the dog…
ENDANGERED SPECIES -- Three incidents involving gray wolves are being investigated this week by Washington wildlife officers, according to Donny Martorello, Department of Fish and Wildlife wolf program leader. On Oct. 6, a dead wolf pup was documented in the Profanity Peak Pack area northeast…
FISHING -- The 2015 fall chinook run of the Columbia River is on a pace to possibly top 2013 as the biggest stampede of upstream adult chinooks since fish counts began at the newly built Bonneville Dam in 1939. If you're not one of the...
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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