WINTER TRAVEL -- A Portland family spent Thursday night in their snowbound car in southern Oregon after following their GPS’s directions. The Daily Courier reports that a husband, wife, 9-year-old child and their dog became snowbound after driving on Happy Camp Road up near Page…
FISHING -- Angler Sean Zenishek, left, caught the attention of a Washington Department of Fish and Wildlife enforcement officer on the Spokane River today, but it wasn't about the fish. Zenishek landed the 23-inch brown trout while spin-fishing from shore. About the time he was...
HUNTING -- Freeze them, don't eat them, Montana wildlife officials are telling hunters who have killed snow geese in the Butte and Dillon areas recently. The meat of snow geese and possibly of other waterfowl that may have landed in the contaminated water of the…
PUBLIC LANDS -- Rep. Cathy McMorris Rodgers is expected to be named Interior secretary by President-elect Donald Trump, the New York Times reported. McMorris Rodgers, elected to a seventh term last month, has been mentioned as a possible Interior Department secretary after she met with...
WATERSPORTS – A grant program has been established for non-profits seeking assistance in promoting boating in the Northwest. The grants are being awarded through the Northwest Marine Trade Association's Grow Boating program, which seeks to increase the number of boaters and encourage current boaters to...
Rich Landers writes and photographs stories and columns for a wide range of outdoors coverage, including Outdoors feature sections on Sunday and Thursday.
