FISHING -- The boat launch area at Coffeepot Lake in Lincoln County has been reopened for use by boat trailers, U.S. Bureau of Land Management Spokane office said today. Unusually low lake levels led to the boat launch closure earlier this year before the lake's...
ENDANGERED SPECIES -- A federal judge says the Obama administration brushed over the threat of climate change to the snow-loving wolverine when it denied protections for the elusive predator also known as the “mountain devil.” U.S. District Judge Dana Christensen on Monday ordered wildlife officials...
BIG GAME -- Ten bighorn sheep from from the National Bison Range in Western Montana were relocated to Hall Mountain near Sullivan Lake on Friday. The 10 yearlings – eight ewes and two rams – were fitted with GPS collars before being released near Noisy...
HUNTING -- A St. Helens, Oregon, man has lost his hunting privileges for three years, must do community service and pay more than $16,000 in fines as part of a sentence for poaching elk last year. Oregon State Police’s Fish and Wildlife Division says Darren...
HUNTING -- “I feel bad for the kid that goes out with his uncle and gets a buck the first time out hunting over bait. That’s the only way that kid knows how to hunt. You learn something by not being immediately successful.” That quote...
Rich Landers writes and photographs stories and columns for a wide range of outdoors coverage, including Outdoors feature sections on Sunday and Thursday.