HUNTING -- Little or no water will greet waterfowlers who might show up near the Winchester Wasteway southwest of Moses Lake on Saturday, the opening day of Washington's duck and goose hunting season. The wetland cells in the Winchester Ponds Regulated Access Area in the…
ENDANGERED SPECIES -- Hailed as a conservation success story by wildlife officials, the Columbian white-tailed deer has been downlisted to threatened after being federally classified as endangered for nearly 40 years. The new status for the coastal subspecies of whitetails is being announced today at…
HUNTING --The body of a Post Falls hunter who went missing in the North Idaho woods on Monday has been found by searchers. Edward A. Hempel, 63, was found dead Wednesday night on the face of a cliff about half a mile from where he...
CLIMATE CHANGE -- "The Great Barrier Reef of Australia passed away in 2016 after a long illness. It was 25 million years old." That startling first sentence leads a must-read obituary by Rowan Jacobsen for Outside Magazine online. "For most of its life, the reef...
Rich Landers writes and photographs stories and columns for a wide range of outdoors coverage, including Outdoors feature sections on Sunday and Thursday.
