FISHING -- Washington Fish and Wildlife Department fisheries biologists have provided details on current fishing opportunities across the state, including waters that open for the season on April 1, in the bi-weekly Weekender released today.
FISHING -- Although the Spokane River is sweeping a plume of muddy water into Lake Roosevelt after a week of rain, the fishing is holding up well in some areas of the big reservoirs. Starting before sunrise this morning, three of us caught 13 rainbow…
WILDLIFE MANAGEMENT -- The Idaho Fish and Game Commission stayed within the agency and selected veteran wildlife manager Virgil Moore as the new director of the Idaho Department of Fish and Game Department. The agency made the announcement today. Moore, 59, is the deputy director…
WILDLIFE WATCHING -- As tracks of the first gizzly bears emerging from hibernation were reported recently at Yellowstone and Glacier national parks, Bruce Auchly of Montana Fish, Wildlife and Parks was penning the following insights about bears as they emerge from their dens. Read on...you're…
HUNTING -- The prolonged debate over a controversial proposal to enact a four-point antler minimum for whitetail bucks in two northeastern Washington game management units will be decided next week in Olympia by the Washington Fish and Wildlife Commission. Click here to see the panel's…
WILDLIFE WATCHING -- Birds have giving a thumbs up, so to speak, for Ron Dexter and the seven wildlife ponds he's built on the family property near Mount Spokane over the years. "Besides great blue herons, belted kingfishers, etc., our main attractions are the wood…
WILDLIFE -- Mountain lions don't eat hay, but this veggie bar spready out near Chewelah this winter likely attracted plenty of deer. Cougars like an all-you-can eat buffet deal as much as anyone. This photo is amon several snapped of cougars in February and March…
WILDERNESS -- The Selway-Bitterroot Frank Church Foundation is bringing the Telluride Mountain Film Festival back to North Idaho on April 8, from 6 p.m. to 10 p.m. at the Kenworthy Performing Arts Centre, 508 South Main St. in Moscow. The Telluride Mountainfilm Festival is a…
Rich Landers writes and photographs stories and columns for a wide range of outdoors coverage, including Outdoors feature sections on Sunday and Thursday.
