PREDATORS -- Livestock producers in France have issues with wolf management not unlike ranchers in Stevens County, Washington. Here's the latest development in the French Alps. Around 50 angry farmers have kidnapped the chief of a national park, demanding he take action against repeated wolf…
HUNTING -- Trophy hunters get a bad rap sometimes. They often spend big money, much of it going to wildlife conservation causes, to kill big specimens of various species. If done legally and ethically in fair chase, I don't see that being much different than...
POACHING -- A 63-year-old Darby man will no longer be able to hunt, fish and trap in Montana after being sentenced in a bear poaching case. The Ravalli Republic reports that James Harrison was sentenced Friday by Ravalli County District Court Judge James Haynes, who…
WILDLIFE -- A North Idaho court has ruled that it's best to let predators have their prey, at least in the case of protected falcons. A woman who was found guilty in connection to the death of a hunter’s falcon will not have her misdemeanor…
FISHING -- Washington fishery managers are easing drought-related fishing restrictions and closures on more than a dozen rivers where conditions have improved, but so far no changes have been announced in far-Eastern Washington streams. Washington Department of Fish and Wildlife officials in July closed or...
BICYCLING -- The fifth annual North Idaho College Brian Williams Memorial Bike Ride (for a prize-winning poker hand) is set for 12:30 p.m. on Saturday, Sept. 12, starting at O’Shays Irish Pub and Eatery, 313 Coeur d’Alene Lake Dr. The poker ride is appropriate for…
Rich Landers writes and photographs stories and columns for a wide range of outdoors coverage, including Outdoors feature sections on Sunday and Thursday.