PUBLIC LANDS -- Starting at midnight, Lake Roosevelt officials will close a long stretch of land along the reservoir's shores impacted by the Hart Road Fire, which started on Aug. 21. The fire burned 585 acres of federal land along the Spokane River within Lake...
FISHING – Anglers claimed more than 340 prizes after catching tagged hatchery-raised trout during the Washington Department of Fish and Wildlife’s first annual statewide fishing derby, the agency says. The derby ran from April 23 through Sept. 6, with more than 130 license dealers donating…
THREATENED SPECIES -- The U.S. government was wrong to exclude large areas of the Rocky Mountains when it designated almost 40,000 square miles of habitat as critical to the survival of imperiled Canada lynx, a federal judge ruled Wednesday. U.S. District Judge Dana Christensen in...
HIKING ETIQUETTE -- Ammi Midstokke, in her S-R Outdoors column this week, takes on the tough-love conversation of how to poop in the woods and keep our favorite camping areas tidy and sanitary. I'm going to take that a step further with a recommendation for...
Rich Landers writes and photographs stories and columns for a wide range of outdoors coverage, including Outdoors feature sections on Sunday and Thursday.
