WILDLIFE -- Twenty of about three dozen pronghorns antelope injured while trying to cross the frozen Snake River had to be euthanized on Monday. The Idaho Fish and Game Department reports that the antelope were injured and stranded on the ice while attempting to cross…
ENVIRONMENT -- Give Interior nominee Rep. Ryan Zinke credit for having the guts to say climate change is not a hoax. The Associated Press reported the following from the Interior nominee's confirmation hearing: WASHINGTON – Donald Trump’s choice to head the Interior Department on Tuesday...
PREDATORS -- Montana wildlife officials killed a female mountain lion and three kittens after they killed two dogs on the northwestern edge of Missoula, near a school bus stop in the Grant Creek area. Fish, Wildlife and Parks wildlife management specialist Jaime Jonkel tells the…
MUSHING -- WINTERSPORTS -- It's the only Iditarod and Yukon Quest sled dog race qualifier in the lower 48 that takes place west of the Rocky Mountains -- and it's virtually in our backyard. The 13th annual running of the 200-mile Eagle Cap Extreme sled...
WATERSPORTS -- A free program to spike your adventure bucket list is scheduled tonight as veteran river rat and gifted photographer Pam Rogers presents a show on her 13-day raft trip on the very wild Tatshenshini-Alsek rivers. The program is sponsored by the Spokane Mountaineers...
PUBLIC LANDS -- Donald Trump's nominee for Interior secretary is laying out his ideas for future uses and potential abuses of federal public lands. Let's make sure that wildlife habitat, clean air and water and open space for public access remain high on the agenda....
WILDLIFE -- The Endangered Species Act is being targeted this week, more evidence that our nation is at a pivotal point in maintaining protections that conserve land, water and wildlife in the face of huge corporate pressure to develop our way out of existence. Republicans...
FISHING -- The next phase of the Washington's reform policy on Columbia River salmon management, including updates to provisions for fall chinook salmon, was approved by a 7-2 vote Saturday by the state Fish and Wildlife Commission during its meeting in Vancouver. Kim Thorburn, commissioner…
PUBLIC LANDS -- The Congressman who recently greased the skids for states to seize federal lands is probably a hero in his home anti-federal lands state of Utah, but his intentions get mixed reviews even among Republicans. Sportsmen are starting to call for their representatives...
PUBLIC LANDS -- The Rocky Mountain Elk Foundation reiterated its "long-standing stance in adamantly opposing the sale or transfer of federal lands to states" this week. The statement was sent out as the battle for maintaining public access to federal public lands was in the...
WILDLIFE -- Gov. Jay Inslee has re-appointed Kim Thorburn of Spokane to the Washington Fish and Wildlife Commission. Thorburn, a physician, active birder and former director of the Spokane Regional Health District, was featured in an S-R Outdoors profile recently. Inslee also brought the number...
Rich Landers writes and photographs stories and columns for a wide range of outdoors coverage, including Outdoors feature sections on Sunday and Thursday.