NATIONAL PARKS -- While road crews are still churning through 20-foot deep snow drifts toward Logan Pass in the upper sections of Glacier National Park's Going to the Sun Road, bicyclists are having a great time riding the motor-vehicle-free lower reaches of the fabled park…
NATIONAL FORESTS -- A series of mudslides todayoccurred mid-morning have blocked the upper Icicle Road west of Leavenworth, stranding about 30 hikers and campers, Wenatchee National Forest officials report. Slides as wide as 40 feet occurred near Fourth of July Trail and Fourth of July…
BOATING -- The Blackwell Island public boat launch was reopened Friday as water levels on Lake Coeur d’Alene continued to drop, the U.S. Bureau of Land Management announced. Based on new stream flow predicitions, the launch facility should remain open for the season, said Kurt…
PREDATORS -- Plans for a wolf trapping season are being drafted in addition to the wolf hunting season scheduled to open this fall in the Idaho Panhandle. “Two years ago, hunters took 27 wolves legally in the Panhandle Region during the hunting Sept. 1-March 31…
RIVERS -- Idaho Rivers United and other groups are organizing a party and meeting to address the 'megaloads' industrial trucking operations using Highway 12 and the Lochsa-Clearwater river corridor. When: 5 p.m., June 18. Where: The Syringa Cafe at the River Dance Lodge on the…
BICYCLING -- The Bicycle Alliance is bringing its Hub & Spoke outreach tour to Spokane, and the group is inviting area cyclists to meet up at the Steam Plant Grill at 5:30 p.m. on June 23. The group plans to discuss how cyclists fared in…
FISHING– Public access to Chapman Lake south of Cheney continues to be blocked by a gate at the Chapman Lake Resort. The Washington Fish and Wildlife Department stocked the lake with about 100,000 small kokanee fry last year plus 7,500 catchable-sized rainbow trout and 50…
FISHING– This year’s late runoff and deep drawdown at Lake Roosevelt has delivered a double whammy to trout and kokanee anglers. The prolonged increased flows and the reservoir’s low water levels likely have flushed significant numbers of carryover trout over Grand Coulee Dam, Washington Department…
Rich Landers writes and photographs stories and columns for a wide range of outdoors coverage, including Outdoors feature sections on Sunday and Thursday.
