WILDLIFE CONSERVATION -- Good things don't always come quick and easy. Hunters and other conservationists are reminded of that this week as a deal closed to seal four years of negotiations by a partnership of conservation groups and state agencies. The project blocks up and…
WILDLIFE -- Imagine the surprise of a cable TV technician who made a service call to a New Jersey man's home and found a 550-pound bear snoozing in the dirt-floor cellar. The bear had been living there for weeks and had brought in twigs and…
SALMON FISHING -- Preliminary forecasts for salmon returns, announced this week, give anglers three good reasons to look forward to 2012: Upriver spring chinook, expected to be the fourth largest since at least 1980. Summer chinook, could be the largest since at least 1980. Sockeye,…
WINTER SPORTS -- A national travel website is advising clients that Salt Lake County is the place to go for an affordable skiing or snowboarding vacation. A frugal traveler visit a Salt Lake-area resort for $239, according to a TripIndex Ski program launched this week…
Rich Landers writes and photographs stories and columns for a wide range of outdoors coverage, including Outdoors feature sections on Sunday and Thursday.
