CAMPING -- Don't plan on a campfire in many public areas for the rest of the month. Prolonged heat and dry weather has most public land agencies issuing restrictions on fires. Citing extreme conditions, Lake Roosevelt National Recreation Area officials have announced that starting Friday,…
FISHING -- There's not much to report since the Columbia River from McNary Dam upstream to U.S. 395 opened for the harvest of hatchery steelhead on June 16. "The fishery has been very slow for effort and harvest over the past two weeks," said Paul…
PUBLIC LANDS -- "As recreation like mountain biking becomes ever more popular on public lands, federal agencies such as the BLM are being prodded to supply more access," says a story by High Country News. "To meet the needs of communities and quell illegal trail…
Rich Landers writes and photographs stories and columns for a wide range of outdoors coverage, including Outdoors feature sections on Sunday and Thursday.
