ENDANGERED SPECIES -- Planning that started in 2007 for dealing with the movement of gray wolves into Washington is inching closer to a conclusion. The Washington Fish and Wildlife Commission has scheduled a special meeting to will hold a special meeting to continue its review…
PUBLIC LANDS -- The dikes and levies along the Coeur d'Alene River near North Idaho College and along Lewiston aren't the only areas where trees are scheduled to be cut by order of the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers. The trees and woody vegetation is…
BIG-GAME HUNTING -- The 2011 archery elk permit drawing results are in, and for some it was a day of reward and excitement. For others there was disappointment in not drawing a permit for this year. For Montana it was an economic bloodletting. The details…
WILDLIFE WATCHING -- I had a chance to soak in some of the conversation recently when a handful of wildlife biologists gathered around a picnic table for dinner at the Little Pend Oreille National Wildlife Refuge. And I was all ears. The "bat lady" told…
FLY FISHING -- Jay Kirchner was fly fishing on the North Fork of the Coeur d'Alene River Saturday morning when he hooked a scrappy cutthroat trout. "It hit an Elk Hair Caddis on the surface," he said. "There was nothing odd about the strike or…
PUBLIC LANDS -- Visitors to the North Idaho Fair, which opens Wednesday at the Kootenai County Fairgrounds, will enjoy one-stop shopping for national forest items such as maps and permits. The Idaho Panhandle National Forests’ booth, located in Building 1, will sell the following items…
WILDLIFE WATCHING -- Thanks to local angler Tom Turnbull for sharing this rare moment as he put down his own rod for a moment to watch as a red-necked grebe taught her brood to catch their food. In his words: I was fishing on Hauser…
FREE-FLOWING RIVERS -- After a dozen years of planning, the White Salmon River, dammed 3.3 miles upstream from its confluence with the Columbia River since 1913, is on its way to becoming a free-flowing river again. Dam operators are letting the water pour out of…
Untitled from Tom Delanoy on Vimeo. OCEAN CREATURES -- Many people have had the pleasure to swim with sea turtles, but since most of us have not, here's a feeling for what it's like. Tom Delanoy, grandson of Medical Lake area resident Kenneth Delanoy, shot…
EVENTS -- A new multi-sport race in the Spokane Valley will put three-person teams to the test of paddling on the Spokane River, mountain biking on Beacon Hill and running on the Centennial Trail. The Plante’s Ferry Adventure Race is set for Sept. 18, sponsored…
OUTDOOR HAZARDS -- The state Health Department says the West Nile virus was found in a mosquito collected Tuesday in Yakima County -- the first sign of the disease this year in Washington. No human cases have been identified this year, but there were two…
WILDLIFE -- A “Be Bear Aware” educational trailer – and a chance to be trained on using bear spray – will be open Monday, 11 a.m.-2 p.m., at the Washington Fish and Wildlife Department office, 2315 N. Discovery Pl. in Spokane Valley.
WATER SPORTS -- Campers and boaters must be aware of toxic alage warnings for a portion of Potholes reservoir and Lake Rufus Woods. The Washington Department of Health is warning people not to swim in Rufus Woods, but officials say the problems does not affect…
SALMON FISHING -- The return of sockeye salmon to Lake Wenatchee is not strong enough to allow a recreational fishery in the lake this year, the Washington Department of Fish and Wildlife just announced. Although more than 185,000 sockeye have passed Bonneville Dam this year,…
WILDLIFE MANAGEMENT -- The Washington Fish and Wildlife Commission today voted to increase cougar hunting opportunities in six counties. Meeting via telephone, the commission amended cougar hunting regulations for a pilot project that authorizes cougar hunting with the aid of dogs. The project had expired…
ADVENTURE RACING -- The end is in sight, at least figuratively for competitors in Expedition Idaho, the 6-day adventure race -- 528 miles, 137,000 vertical feet – night and day through North Idaho. "After an unbelievable week, where at times, we never thought we could…
COLUMBIA RIVER -- The level of Lake Roosevelt was 1286 feet this morning. High pool is 1290. For the next week, the level of Lake Roosevelt is anticipated to continuing dropping gradually, the Bureau of Reclamation reports. The predicted level of the lake by the…
FISHING -- Record and near record steelhead catches from the Lower Columbia mainstem sport fishery last month have just been reported by Washington Department of Fish and Wildlife: New record steelhead harvest for the month of July. An estimated 8,549 steelhead were kept last month.…
Quote of the week: "There's a lot of people who support wolf recovery and wolves in Idaho, but I really believe that the pro-wolf part of Idaho has kind of shut up." Carter Niemeyer, who spent decades working as a wolf management specialist for the…
FLY FISHING -- High water and prolonged runoff fouled Montana fly fishing plans and forced cancelation of guided trips well into July this year. But that's history. Many experts say that setback should translate into sensational fall fishing. For an update, check out Swollen Rivers,…
WILDLIFE WATCHING -- A five-year project has succeeded in returning the Western bluebird to Washington’s San Juan Islands. The bird had historically inhabited the islands, but changing land use practices and a paucity of nesting sites meant the species had not nested there for over…
FISHING -- The Spokane River's struggling native redband trout are in the news for more reasons that one this week. As stream flows hit their seasonal lows in the Spokane River, Avista Utilities begins a to-do list of work on their dams and on the…
SPOKANE RIVER -- Every regulator with a clue seems to agree that plans to build up to 30 docks at the Coyote Rock development are a bad idea for the Spokane River. The river has emphasized the sentiment -- see photo above -- as spring…
MOUNTAINEERING -- Two climbers were plucked from the summit of South Goodsir Tower in Yoho National Park on Sunday in the highest helicopter rescue on record for the Banf, Yoho or Kootenay national parks. Parks Canada spokesman Omar McDadi said two climbers who used a…
WILDLIFE ENCOUNTERS -- Hikers in the Teanaway area of the Okanogan-Wenatchee National Forest are being warned to watch out for an aggressive mountain goat. Spokeswoman Nancy Jones says the forest has received six or seven complaints since June, most recently last weekend. The goat is…
Rich Landers writes and photographs stories and columns for a wide range of outdoors coverage, including Outdoors feature sections on Sunday and Thursday.
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