FISHING -- A clarification has been posted on the Snake River stretch involved in reduced steelhead catch limits resulting from dismal returns to the Columbia and Snake rivers. Here's the revised info from the Washington Department of Fish and Wildlife: Action: The hatchery steelhead daily…
PREDATORS – A court in Washington, D.C., is poised to decide whether Wyoming will be allowed to manage wolves within the state, or whether federal management will continue. The Friday hearing before a three-judge panel at the U.S. Court of Appeals comes two years after…
HIKING -- The Cheney-Spokane Chapter of the Ice Age Floods Institute has several educational programs planned for October, and it's not too early to sign up for limited spaces on two geologist-led hikes in the upper Grand Coulee area. Both hikes will be led by…
TRAILS -- Volunteers are invited to join the Spokane Mountaineers Saturday for their annual work party to spruce up the 2-mile trail to Lone Lake south of Mullan, Idaho. "This is an alpine lake on the Idaho/Montana border accessed from I-90 Exit 69 near Mullan,…
TRAILS -- On Sept. 18, at 3:38 a.m., professional ultrarunner Karl “Speedgoat” Meltzer, 48, emerged from the Appalachian Trail’s southern terminus at Springer Mountain, Ga., to set an Appalachian Trail supported thru-hike speed record of 45 days 22 hours and 38 minutes. Meltzer started his supported...
CLIMBING -- I'm not sure I would blame society if I ran into a hole and injured myself. But it's worth noting that our inclination to shrug responsibility in outdoor pursuits and sue when things go wrong have far-reaching consequences. Here's the latest: A central…
FISHING -- Fall chinook fishing in the Hanford Reach of the Columbia River continues to improve toward the peak of the season with boats averaging a chinook per boat this past week, according to Washington Department of Fish and Wildlife biologist Paul Hoffarth. Here are...
PUBLIC LANDS -- Idaho Panhandle National Forests officials at Priest Lake are temporarily closing a section of Forest Road 334 starting Oct. 1 while a culvert is replaced. Quartz Creek Road, as it's called, will be closed from the junction with Forest Road 416 and…
SHOOTING -- Irresponsible shooters who litter the landscape sometimes overshadow legitimate enthusiasts who shoot their rifles, handguns and shotguns in approved facilities with peer-enforced safety codes. Shooting sports are a tradition in the Inland Northwest, where The Spokesman-Review's winter trapshoot has been conducted for a…
WILDERNESS -- A coalition of conservation groups has objected to a mining company’s request for a state water right permit for the proposed Rock Creek Mine on the Kootenai National Forest. According to a news release from Earthjustice, the permit would allow the mine to...
RIVERS -- A "Free the Snake" flotilla of boaters launched on the Snake River Saturday calling for the removal of four dams on the lower Snake to help improve salmon and steelhead habitat. The rally was staged out of Clarkston. The second annual event included...
PUBLIC LANDS -- Volunteers are needed for a work party at Blue Creek Bay Recreation Area east of Coeur d'Alene on Thursday, Sept. 22, to celebrate National Public Lands Day. The U.S. Bureau of Land Management is organizing the service project for planting trees and…
TRAILS – The Friends of the Scotchman Peaks Wilderness are trying to round up a big turnout to finish re-routing the popular Scotchman Peak Trail #65 northeast of Lake Pend Oreille. The group is organizing volunteers to add switchbacks and avoid a steep and badly…
NIGHT SKY -- Sneaking about Priest Lake was difficult tonight, like trying to mess around under a spotlight. Thanks to Pecky Cox for the dreamy photo "Over the Selkirks" from the North Idaho gem, snapped at 7:31 p.m.
HUNTING/FISHING -- Active Network, the Texas-based company that owns and operates hunting and fishing license systems for several states, is offering identity theft services to license buyers whose personal information may have been compromised by a hacker's attempt last month to access the online license…
HUNTING -- As he was heading out last week for the opening of archery elk season, a bowhunter sent me the photo above from his pre-season scouting. His game cam was posted over a wallow when it snapped the photo in August. Note his tree...
FISHING -- Fall chinook harvest in the Hanford Reach area picked up this past week with boats averaging just over a half a chinook per boat, according to Paul Hoffarth of the Washington Department of Fish and Wildlife. "Best fishing was in the Vernita area...
FISHING -- A two-hour class, Fly Fishing for Steelhead, by fishing guide Sean Visintainer is set for 6 p.m. on Sept. 28 at Silver Bow Fly Shop in Spokane Valley. Cost is $20. "Despite low steelhead counts so far, we have had some reports of...
TRAILS -- A short section of Forest Trail 162 on the Priest Lake Ranger District was closed this week because of increased fire activity. The 150-acre Gleason fire is approaching Trail 162, which is located on the west end of Squaw Valley, said District Ranger…
PUBLIC LANDS -- The potential for destructive wildfires continues in September, and the region's U.S. Bureau of Land Management areas are especially vulnerable because of their lower elevations. Shooters are being targeted for education about their role in causing wildfires. Of the 13 fires west...
FISHING -- Nature had a plan for providing steelhead runs that migrate hundreds of miles inland from the ocean. Idaho Fish and Game Department fisheries biologist Brett Bowersox spells it out: Steelhead fisheries in Idaho are world class, and the fact that anglers can fish...
The current two hatchery steelhead daily limit upstream of McNary Dam on the Columbia River has been reduced to one hatchery steelhead effective Thursday through Dec. 31, the Washington Department of Fish and Wildlife announced in a release.
HUNTING – Authorities say a 52-year-old bow hunter from Tillamook has been arrested on a criminal negligent homicide charge after fatally shooting his hunting partner south of Bend. The Deschutes County Sheriff’s Office said in a news release that Michael Pekarek called 911 Monday morning…
HUNTING -- The rights of Sinixt (Arrow Lakes) Colville Tribal members to hunt in their traditional territory in Canada will be tested in a trial set to start on Monday Sep. 19, in the Provincial Court of British Columbia. Here's information from the Colville Confederated...
HUNTING -- Note to nimrods picking an elk hunting partner: There's no better choice that one who will personally deliver for a special occasion a home-grown watermelon, a bottle of homemade wine and the most precious and tender elk tenderloin a forest can grow. He…
Rich Landers writes and photographs stories and columns for a wide range of outdoors coverage, including Outdoors feature sections on Sunday and Thursday.
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