FISHERIES -- Wild-caught Pacific salmon is more myth than reality on some Puget Sound restaurant menus, a study at the University of Washington Tacoma has found. About 38 percent of samples from Tacoma-area restaurants showed a menu was promoting farm-raised Atlantic salmon as wild-caught Pacific…
STATE PARKS – A more natural view toward Lake Pend Oreille could be in the works to greet visitors to the popular Jokulhlaup lookout in Farragut State Park. The Idaho Fish and Game Department is planning to restore the view shed and the adjacent ponderosa…
BICYCLE TOURING -- OK, so it was done first in cars during a 1920 showcase event. But one cyclist/writer says there's bicycling merit to the Playground Tour, a 4,500 mile, four-month bike ride through the Western United States. Rick Olson, editor-at-large of adventure journal Wend…
Rich Landers writes and photographs stories and columns for a wide range of outdoors coverage, including Outdoors feature sections on Sunday and Thursday.
