WINTER SPORTS -- Schweitzer Mountain Resort announced today that it will open for the season on Saturday, the earliest opening for the resort since 1984. About 20 inches of snow was reported at the resort this morning. That combined with the work of a snowmaking…
SPORTSMEN'S ACCESS -- Washington Fish and Wildlife Department officials say they plan to use a $1 million federal grant and at least $400,000 from big-game hunting application fees to improve recreational access to private lands in Eastern Washington. WDFW is one of 11 agencies nationwide…
WATERFOWLING -- The Washington Fish and Wildlife Department has a new waterfowling website ready for hunters to take advantage of the best forecast fall flight of ducks since 1955 -- and the foul weather that's ushering them southward and into our region. The site has…
EXTREME SKIING -- This short video show's an easy day of cliff skiing for Jamie Pierre, the Montana skier and ski-film star who died in an avalanche on Sunday. The video is fun to watch. Basically it's a commercial for the various ways Go-Pro video…
Rich Landers writes and photographs stories and columns for a wide range of outdoors coverage, including Outdoors feature sections on Sunday and Thursday.
