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• Landers: Hunting rule proposals undergo changes

  February 16, 2012 in Sports, Outdoors on Page B1 With less than three weeks before their presentation to the Fish and Wildlife Commission, Washington wildlife managers are still scrambling with late changes to proposals for 2012-2014 hunting regulations. Details … 1

• Idaho continues debate on allowing guided hunting for waterfowl, turkeys

  February 5, 2012 in Outdoors on Page C12 Idaho officials have wrestled for years with proposals that would allow guided hunting for waterfowl and turkeys. In 1988, the interested parties – including the Idaho Department of Fish and …

• Landers: Some hunters drawing bead on Wash. proposals

  January 12, 2012 in Sports, Outdoors on Page B1 Two hunting- related rule proposals being considered by Washington Fish and Wildlife managers have sportsmen squawking like a flock of ravens swarming a carcass. As The Spokesman-Review reported last week, …

• Waterfowling’s   big flap: electronic decoys

  January 8, 2012 in Outdoors on Page C12 If it looks like a duck, acts like a duck and flaps its wings like a duck, conventional wisdom dictates that it is, in fact, a duck. But not always. 3

• Guide makes case for electronic decoys

  January 8, 2012 in Outdoors on Page C12 If electronic waterfowl decoys are legal in 47 states, why not Washington? Virtually all waterfowl hunters and managers agree that adding motion to decoys improves their effectiveness in luring ducks …

• Tips for safe canoe hunts

  December 11, 2011 in Outdoors on Page C12 The canoe is a time tested, inexpensive and efficient way to hunt waterfowl on certain waters, ranging from the Clark Fork River in Montana and Idaho to the Winchester and … 1

• Landers: Results of outdoors surveys revealed

  December 8, 2011 in Sports, Outdoors on Page B1 While an aerial survey has just detailed where northern ducks are congregating in the Columbia Basin, wildlife managers in Olympia are using a different type of survey to help guide … 4

• Duck hunt goes foul when teen shot in duck blind

  November 20, 2011 in Outdoors on Page C12 Justin Kevan thanks his buddies, God, cellphones and a whole bunch of medical people for not losing his right arm in a duck hunting accident last season. The Kennewick High …

• Landers: Nontoxic shot required at East Side pheasant sites

  September 22, 2011 in Sports, Outdoors on Page B1 Pheasants aren’t the only ones that will have to get the lead out Saturday when Washington’s special youth upland bird hunting seasons opens. Hunters under 16 looking for action at …

• Focus on kids

  September 15, 2011 in Outdoors on Page K2 A lot of “educating” can be done during the special youth upland bird and waterfowl seasons in Idaho and Washington. Since only youths under the age of 16 can shoot … 1