FISHING -- As 2015 chinook salmon runs were setting a record for numbers over Bonneville Dam on Sunday, anglers were capping the week with darned good fishing upstream in the Hanford Reach. The total of 1,204,410 spring, summer and fall chinook has been counted at…
HIKING -- Utah canyoneers look to weather reports to help plan their entry into slots that can be death traps in sudden rain storms. Sometimes the weather forecasts change. That's an agency overseeing visitor safety to do? After 7 die in flash flood, Utah national…
CRITTERS – Volunteers are invited to a community work party to plant streamside habitat at Turnbull National Wildlife Refuge 9 a.m.-noon on Saturday, Oct. 3. The event is sponsored by the refuge, Spokane Audubon Society and Friends of Turnbull. Hamburgers will be provided for a...
RIVERS -- Another annual stewardship event this weekend will tackle another stretch of the Spokane River. Some 600 volunteers removed more than 4 tons of junk from the gorge and university areas below and above downtown during the Sept. 19 Spokane River Cleanup. The Upriver...
Better than a full moon, harvest moon or super moon -- a pending state-record moonfish was caught out of Westport by a Coeur d'Alene angler fishing for tuna with All Rivers and Saltwater Charters...
FISHING – Anglers can sign up to get a $5 reward for each northern pike caught in a targeted area at the south end of Lake Coeur d’Alene starting Thursday through May 31. Coeur d’Alene Tribe researchers are using $12,000 in payments to encourage anglers…
PUBLIC LANDS -- Genevieve Masters has been named supervisor on the Umatilla National Forest, which includes 1.4 million acres through the Blue Mountains in Washington and Oregon. Masters will be moving to forest headquarters in Pendleton, Oregon, from her post as deputy forest supervisor on…
Rich Landers writes and photographs stories and columns for a wide range of outdoors coverage, including Outdoors feature sections on Sunday and Thursday.