BIRDING – The Coeur d’Alene Audubon Society will celebrate its silver anniversary with a program, prizes and dinner Sunday April 17, at the Greenbriar Inn, 315 Wallace Ave. in Coeur d’Alene. The event will benefit the club’s wildlife habitat and education projects. Tickets, $40, can...
WILDLIFE WATCHING -- On April 4, describing the wolverine as a “snow-dependent species standing squarely in the path of global climate change,” a federal judge recently overturned a 2014 decision by the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service to deny this rare species protection under the…
PARKS -- With the sun shining, the river roaring and wildflowers blooming, funseekers were flocking to Riverside State Park last weekend. The other thing that was blooming was tickets on windshields. Seems that some of the crowd forgot that a Washington Discover Pass is required…
FISHING -- Why doesn't the state improve the public boat launch at Rock Lake, a popular trout and bass fishing lake in Whitman County? That's the question several boaters asked after the Washington Fish and Wildlife closed the site for two days recently for improvements...
FISHING -- Montana officials say restrictions aren’t needed along a stretch of the Boulder River near Big Timber that residents and anglers protest is being degraded by too many commercial floaters. Fish, Wildlife and Parks officials are recommending the Montana Fish and Wildlife Commission reject…
Rich Landers writes and photographs stories and columns for a wide range of outdoors coverage, including Outdoors feature sections on Sunday and Thursday.