FISHING -- Suddenly sockeye anglers have a fishery starting Tuesday on the upper Columbia, with more to come. Here's the announcement just posted by the Washington Department of Fish and Wildlife. Effective date:June 28 through Aug. 15, 2016 Species affected: Sockeye salmon. Area 1: Columbia...
FISHING -- Sockeye fishing on the upper Columbia will be rationed this season to get more salmon up to spawning grounds -- however, the first season could open as early as Tuesday, June 28. And the popular Wells Pool area near Brewster should open in...
FISHERIES – Federal appeals judges say the state of Washington has violated the treaty rights of tribes to fish by building and maintaining large pipes that allow streams to pass beneath roads but also block migrating salmon, according to the Associated Press. A panel of…
WILDLIFE -- Always have your camera ready when driving through Wallace, Idaho. This young bull moose was looking for a parking spot in a neighborhood at 4 p.m. on Sunday.
PUBLIC LANDS --The Cascade River Road from the west side of the North Cascades has reopened to all vehicles to its end at Cascade Pass Trailhead. The road had been closed for the winter at the Eldorado Trailhead, three and a half miles below the…
TRAILS -- Sunday's outdoors feature on the region's rail trails might someday be expanded with the possible addition of a route that would be ideally located to serve the Washington State University community. The state-owned Colfax-Albion-Pullman Rail Corridor, running 19 miles between Colfax and Pullman...
PUBLIC LANDS -- About 52 miles of roads in the 2015 Tower Fire area west of Priest River drainage remain closed for safety as salvage logging is scheduled to begin in July and last for up to three years. Idaho Panhandle Forest Supervisor Mary Farnsworth…
BIRDS -- You have to love American robins and their comfort zone with American families. One year I wrote a column about having to postpone a family canoeing trip because I'd discovered robins raising a brood on the seat of my canoe hanging under the...
Rich Landers writes and photographs stories and columns for a wide range of outdoors coverage, including Outdoors feature sections on Sunday and Thursday.
