BOWHUNTING -- A proposal to allow lighted nocks to be used on arrows for bowhunting seasons in Washington got a big vote of confidence for bowhunters in an email survey conducted last month by the Fish and Wildlife Department. The survey results were released to…
WILDLIFE MANAGEMENT -- Larry Carpenter, a Mount Vernon boat dealer and long-time sportfishing enthusiast, and Jay Kehne, an Omak conservationist, sheep farmer and hunter, have been appointed to vacant positions on the Washington Fish and Wildlife Commission. The commission is a nine-member panel that makes…
BIRDWATCHING -- The weekly fall/winter survey of bald eagles congregating at Lake Coeur d'Alene has been cancelled this week as BLM staffers are in training meetings. But the birds are there by the dozens, as you learned last week in this blog post followed by…
PUBLIC LANDS -- Nearly a third of Washington’s year-round state parks staffers are being notified this week that they likely will be laid off as a result of lagging sales of the new Discover Pass, according to the News Tribune in Tacoma. Seasonal jobs will…
FLY FISHING -- From the looks of the photo above, Joe Roope of Castaway Fly Shop in Coeur d'Alene had a good time last week living large with the fat rainbows on Argentina's Jurassic Lake.
PREDATORS -- Hunters and trappers are making a little progress in reducing the number of wolves in Idaho, with North Idaho hunters doing better than they did during the last wolf season in 2009-2010. Here's this week's update from Jim Hayden, Idaho Fish and Game…
FAMILIES -- Aidan Long puts his muscle into bringing home the Monana family's 2011 Christmas tree last weekend. "No freshly felled fir ever smelled so sweet to me," said his dad, Ben. A family get-to-gether isn't the only reason to go to a tree farm…
JP Auclair Street Segment (from All.I.Can.) from Sherpas Cinema on Vimeo. SKIING -- This street-skiing video clip from the ski film All.I.Can. is one of my favorite moments from the Banff Mountain Film Festival World Tour that ran three nights at The Bing Crosby Theater…
Rich Landers writes and photographs stories and columns for a wide range of outdoors coverage, including Outdoors feature sections on Sunday and Thursday.
