NATIONAL PARKS -- Yellowstone National Park still delivers for wildlife watchers. A Spokane family just back from several days in the great Montana-Wyoming park said that among all the wildlife they saw, they were blessed with 24 bears sightings, half of them grizzlies. To top…
NATIONAL PARKS -- Some of the biggest rock avalanches in years have been roaring off Mount Rainier the past several days, kicking up billowing clouds of dust and propelling rivers of muddy debris nearly two miles down the volcano’s flanks, according to an Associated Press…
BICYCLING -- More than 600 tandem cycling enthusiasts are freewheeling to Spokane Friday through Sunday to celebrate the holiday weekend in the 26th annual Northwest Tandem Rally. The Spokane Regional Sports Commission is helping organize the event. Based out of Mukogawa Ft. Wright Institute, the…
FISHING -- Idaho Fish and Game Department officials are taking public comments through July 8 on proposed changes to fishing rules. All proposed rules are available on the Fish and Game website . Comments may be submitted at the links on the web page. Highlights…
PUBLIC LANDS -- Reports are coming in this week from national forests in central Montana and northcentral Washington, where officials say they have staggering road damage from spring runoff this year. Word to the wise outdoorsman: Call ahead to for forest road conditions. The Okanogan-Wenatchee…
WILDLIFE WATCHING -- While it might seem to harbor a different sort of foul to the uninitiated, the Colville Sewage Treatment Plant has been a hot spot for birders looking for passing waterfowl and shorebirds. But some birders who recently violated the no-driving rule at…
PUBLIC LANDS -- Outdoor recreationists have stumbled into illegal backwoods marijuana growing sites on several occasions already this year. That's prompted a warning from Forest Service officials: Marijuana operations pose significant threats to forest visitors, so it is very important for all national forest users…
FISHING -- Anglers planning to fish Montana waters can get useful information from the revised Montana Fishing Guide organized online by the Montana Fish Wildlife and Parks Department. Althought he site lacks some of the immediacy and detail of some fishing shop sites, it has…
Rich Landers writes and photographs stories and columns for a wide range of outdoors coverage, including Outdoors feature sections on Sunday and Thursday.
