STEELHEAD FISHING -- The march is on for steelhead making their way up the Snake and then up the Salmon River into the Riggins area. More than 360,000 steelhead have crossed Bonneville Dam in the lower Columbia. More than 130,000 of those fish have made…
UPLAND BIRD HUNTING --Hunters chilled at the thought of what the cool, rainy spring was doing to nesting pheasants and quail in June. Indeed, the pheasant hatch isn’t anything to crow about, but it’s not as bad as hunters may have feared in some areas.…
CONSERVATION -- The 8th annual Spokane River Cleanup last weekend was a big success. There's no official report yet from the Friends of the Falls regarding the amount of garbage the hundreds of volunteers collected to spiff up the river through Spokane Valley down to…
BIG GAME -- We don't think of elk as being creatures game for hot weather, but the elk enjoying the sanctuary of the near-desert conditions on the Handford Nuclear Reservation are doing just fine, thank you. Erika Holmes, who works at the Hanford Site, snapped…
WILDLIFE ENCOUNTERS -- A study done in Banff, Yoho and Kootenay national parks in Alberta and British Columbia found that even one hiker an hour on trails in those parks sent predators and prey scurrying. However, elk and other herbivores were not as deterred by…
BOATING -- Check with your mechanic, but most are recommending that you treat your boat gas with at least a water remover, says Anton Jones of Darrell and Dad's Family Guide Service at Chelan. "Especially now when boats are likely to set idle for longer…
Rich Landers writes and photographs stories and columns for a wide range of outdoors coverage, including Outdoors feature sections on Sunday and Thursday.
