WILDFIRES -- Faced with a red-flag wind warning, the road from Mazama to Harts Pass and a popular trailhead for the Pasayten Wilderness was closed today -- on the eve of Washington's high-mountain buck deer hunting season -- because of the Diamond Creek Fire. Apparently…
WILDFIRES -- Faced with a red-flag wind warning, the road from Mazama to Harts Pass and a popular trailhead for the Pasayten Wilderness was closed today -- on the eve of Washington's high-mountain buck deer hunting season -- because of the Diamond Creek Fire. Apparently…
WILDLIFE – A grizzly bear that had been raiding backcountry campsites and chasing campers in Yellowstone National Park since last year has been captured and killed, the Associated Press reports. The National Park Service says biologists killed the immature, male grizzly on Sept. 8 after…
PUBLIC LANDS – A public land hunter in Idaho recently collected a $500 reward from Backcountry Hunters & Anglers after reporting illegal use of an off-road vehicle in the Third Fork drainage on the Emmett Ranger District of the Boise National Forest. As a result…
WILDLIFE -- A University of Idaho researcher in has received a $700,000 grant from the National Science Foundation to continue studying antelope in Africa. The ongoing study involving the College of Natural Resources looks at body size and how it impacts behavior and survival of…
TRAILS -- Some South Hill bluff trails will be temporarily closed off and on during the next two months as Avista uses vehicles and occasionally a helicopter to replace 2.7 miles of transmission line through the area. Work has started this week and will likely...
WILDLIFE -- A wolf could out-swim a white-tailed deer but couldn't make the buck a meal. Photographer David Smith was canoe-camping recently in Lakeland Provincial Park and Recreation Area in northern Alberta near Lac La Biche when the deer plunged into the water with a...
HUNTING -- The National Park Service plans to thin a herd of bison in the Grand Canyon through roundups and by seeking volunteers who are physically fit and proficient with a gun to kill the animals that increasingly are damaging park resources, the Associated Press…
WILDLIFE HABITAT -- While wildfires can be devastating in some cases, a lightning strike in the Snow Peak Wildlife Management area of Unit 9 on the Idaho Panhandle fits the prescription for rejuvenating big-game habitat. "The Buck Fire had burned over 1,200 acres in the...
FISHING -- Growing fishing pressure and congestion on Western Montana's Bitterroot River has prompted the state to propose limits on outfitters in the river's upper reaches. Montana Fish, Wildlife and Parks is seeking comment on proposed administrative rules and an associated draft environmental assessment for…
HUNTING -- To minimize the impacts of large dog training operations on nesting upland gamebirds and waterfowl, Montana Fish, Wildlife and Parks is proposing new requirements for gun dog handlers. Meetings on the proposal will be held in October in all regions of the state.…
FISHING -- These are busy times with families getting their kids back to school, sports events revving up, hunting seasons cranking up, fruit harvest kicking into gear.... No wonder September is such a great time to go fly fishing! Sean Visintainer of Silver Bow Fly...
HIKING -- A grizzly bear attacked a woman in southwest Montana on Saturday but was driven off by bear spray, the Associated Press reports. It was the second grizzly attack in the region in a week. Andrea Jones of the Montana Fish, Wildlife and Parks…
WILDILFE -- Efforts by wildlife managers and sportsmen to restore elk in southwestern Washington have been successful enough to raise concerns of landowners who say enough is enough. The Washington Farm Bureau proposes capping the number of elk in two northwest Washington valleys, where farmers…
DAMS -- A $16 million project to remove century-old Mill Pond Dam and restore Sullivan Creek downstream from Sullivan Lake is slowly getting underway this month. Seattle City Light has been preparing for the removal of the small dam in Pend Oreille County for years.…
FISHING -- Worries that spring flooding would ruin this season's fishing at stocked trout lakes in the Spokane region never panned out, at least not at Williams Lake. Trout-catching has been "amazing" this year, reports Dusty at Klink's Resort. In a report to Randy Osborne,…
WILDLIFE -- The state protective status of yellow-billed cuckoos, loggerhead sea turtles, fishers and five whale species was set by the Washington Fish and Wildlife Commission Friday and Saturday in Port Angeles. Yellow-billed cuckoo was listed as an endangered species in Washington. In 2014, the…
FISHING -- Columbia River anglers fishing for fall chinook in the Hanford Reach upstream from the Tri Cities have had lots of elbow room and low rates of success so far this season. But numbers from last week indicate the tide is changing. "Fishing continues...
FISHING -- An update on the potential for reintroducing chinook to the Columbia River upstream from Chief Joseph will be presented Tuesday during the Northwest Power and Conservation Council meeting at the Davenport Hotel in Spokane. The council, which, in part, helps direct hydropower ratepayer...
WILDLIFE ENFORCEMENT -- A retired fish and wildlife officer from Alaska has become the new chief of the Washington Department of Fish and Wildlife Police. Steve Bear stepped into the Washington position on Sept. 1. He had retired as Colonel for the Alaska Wildlife Troopers...
HUNTING -- Wildfires are likely to impact many hunters this year, but hunting seasons will not be closed, Washington Department of Fish and Wildlife officials say. Sportsmen should monitor the federal Incident Information System -- InciWeb -- before heading to their hunting spots to make…
WILDLIFE -- Birds and critters can’t heed health agency warnings to take refuge indoors from the pall of wildfire smoke smothering the West. They’re stuck outside, coping with bad air quality much as they deal with weather extremes throughout the year. “Wildlife appears to be...
FISHING -- Here's an unexpected consequence of wildfires and smoke impacting the region: Only “essential” workers are allowed to be on the job at Bonneville Dam, and that does not include the fish counters. Consequently, as Columbia River fish managers and anglers are desperately trying...
RIVERS -- This year, in its first full summer season, more than 231,000 people floated the Deschutes River through the Bend, Oregon, Whitewater Park passageway channel on inner tubes, kayaks or paddleboards. The Bend Bulletin reports that’s roughly 2,200 floaters each day between May 15...
FISHING -- Anglers can keep all the trout they want for the next five weeks at five Eastern Washington lakes scheduled for rehabilitation this fall. Seasons have been extended and size and daily limits suspended for gamefish at three lakes in Stevens County and two…
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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