BICYCLING -- The most popular spring and SUMMER organized bicycle tours have filled or are filling fast. I have a story coming Sunday with a calendar of the most popular local and regional events through August. The Seattlet o Portland ride (STP), July 9-10, which…
The Big Horn Outdoor Adventure Show kicked off today and runs through Sunday at the Spokane Fair and Expo Center. The show has something for every member of the family, including fishing ponds and staffed shooting ranges for the kids. In this photo made this…
FISHING -- Eat your chicken livers out, Southern boys. A huge channel catfish caught this month in Oregon's Willamette River proves that we got salmon... and big cats, too. While fishing with heavy gear at Riverfront Park, Drew Beaty of Salem landed a 3-foot-long channel…
FLY FISHING -- The annual North Idaho Fly Fishing Expo presented by the Kelly Creek Flycasters is expanding to two days this year and moving from Clarkston to Lewiston. The event, which covers everything from beginning fly-casting instruction to advanced spey casting with two-handed rods,…
TRAILS -- The Indiana Avenue road extension project will limit access to the Centennial Trail and paddle-boat launching near Mission and Flora from April through July 4. Route changes in the area include new names for some of the roads, Spokane Valley officials said. Since…
RIVER RUNNING -- This warning just came in from the local whitewater rafting email list for paddlers heading down the Spokane River into the Devil's Toenail Rapid near the Spokane Rifle Club: A tree with a large rootball is hung up in the pour-over, river…
CONSERVATION -- Idaho is offering several new specialty vehicle license plates this year, including one that benefits mountain biking programs and one to help manage Idaho's premier wilderness areas. The wildernes plate, sponsored by the Selway-Bitterroot Frank Church Foundation, benefits trail maintenance and wilderness stewardship…
OUTDOOR YOUTH -- A local follow-up to yesterday's post on outdoor-related summer jobs for youths: The Lake Roosevelt National Recreation Area soon will be hiring for 10 Youth Conservation Corps positions for youths 15-18 years old. Work starts in June . The youths work 40-hours…
NATURE WATCHING -- January's warm streak was cruel, luring buttercups to bloom prematurely west of Spokane. But now they're blooming with confidence around town, and birds are flocking in all around us. Spokane Auduboner Kim Thorburn takes a special interest in the Swanson Lakes Wildlife…
WILDLIFE WATCHING -- With spring migration in full tilt, it's difficult to overlook the large white swans mixing with other waterfowl in the region's lakes and wetlands. But it's easy to miss the dintinction between the trumpeter swans and the tundra swans. This article in…
CONSERVATION -- The 4th annual dinner and auction fundraiser sponsored by the Friends of Turnbull National Wildlife Refuge is set for March 27 from noon to 4 p.m. at the Lincoln Center, 1316 N. Lincoln St. in Spokane. The events helps fund Turnbull’s environmental education…
CONSERVATION -- "Nothing says 'excess' like Vegas and a four axle, 40-foot long strech "Hummer" limousine," said Phil Hough of Sandpoint, who's visiting Sin City this week for a conservation conference. "No, this was NOT the airport shuttle we took," said the spokesman for the…
Rich Landers writes and photographs stories and columns for a wide range of outdoors coverage, including Outdoors feature sections on Sunday and Thursday.
