WATERSPORTS -- The emergency closures of access to the Spokane River enacted in March have all been lifted as of this morning. The Spokane City Council and the Spokane County Commission both voted Tuesday night to lift their emergency closures. The Spokane City Council led…
TRAILS -- A lot of concern is brewing on Spokane's South Hill as a bulldozer this week has been carving a road past the beloved bluff trail system below Bernard and north along the bank of Hangman Creek to the power station below 29th. Questions...
ENDANGERED SPECIES -- Wolf monitoring in Oregon has not been well-served by pricey technology in the past year, state wildlife officials say in their annual wolf recovery status report. Numbers of wolves are up but it's not clear how much. Here's a story about the…
FISHING -- With water, water everywhere this spring, water levels at two popular trout fishing lakes -- McDowell Lake and Potter's Pond -- on the Little Pend Oreille National Wildlife Refuge are profoundly altered....
Rich Landers writes and photographs stories and columns for a wide range of outdoors coverage, including Outdoors feature sections on Sunday and Thursday.