TRAILS -- Picking up from some unofficial tree hacking in 2015, someone has begun unauthorized cutting of ponderosa pine trees on the city-owned South Hill Bluff below High Drive. Planned tree thinning has been done on the bluff to reduce fire danger. But as you...
HUNTING-FISHING -- Today, on his first day on duty, Department of the Interior Secretary Ryan Zinke (pronounced ZINK-ee) issued two secretarial orders. One withdraws a controversial order signed by an Obama administration official to phase out use of lead bullets and lead fishing tackle on...
FISHING -- Pink salmon, which return to Puget Sound on odd-numbered years, apparently will offer a little less action to anglers this summer. The Washington Department of Fish and Wildlife released a forecast Tuesday that 1.15 million pinks are expected to return in 2017, down…
RIVERS -- The current debate over the value of the lower Snake River Dams and whether removing them would improve the salmon and steelhead fisheries isn't new. Carve out a half-hour from your schedule to soak up some background in this 1971 film documentary produced...
Rich Landers writes and photographs stories and columns for a wide range of outdoors coverage, including Outdoors feature sections on Sunday and Thursday.