PARKS -- Work to erase more than a mile of road illegally bulldozed into the South Hill bluffs city parklands in mid-April has concluded today, according to the City Parks Department and Avista. Land Expressions was contracted to regrade, hydroseed and replant trees and shrubs...
FISHING -- Restrictions on summer steelhead fishing in the Columbia River Basin were announced today in response to projections of the lowest returns in 37 years. The Washington Department of Fish and Wildlife says fish managers expect about 130,700 summer-run steelhead will return to the…
FISHING -- Montana fisheries biologists found fewer large trout in a stretch of the Yellowstone River that was hardest hit by a fish-killing parasite last summer, according to the Associated Press. Fish, Wildlife and Parks biologist Scott Optiz says the number of brown trout between…
Rich Landers writes and photographs stories and columns for a wide range of outdoors coverage, including Outdoors feature sections on Sunday and Thursday.