WILDLIFE MANAGEMENT -- Compensation to Washington farmers and ranchers for deer and elk damage to their crops would be suspended under the governor's latest proposal to slash state agency budgets even further. And as many as six senior managers in the state Department of Fish…
CROSS-COUNTRY SKIING -- The Panhandle Nordic Ski and Snowshoe Club will discuss what needs to be done to continue developing and grooming the ski trails at Fourth of July Pass when it meets for this week. The club's first meeting of the season will start…
ENDANGERED SPECIES -- Oregon's newest confirmed wolf pack is roaming the Hells Canyon National Recreation Area and Wilderness along the Snake River bordering Idaho. Oregon Department of Fish and Wildlife used hunter reports and remote cameras to help them document at leat five wolves in…
HUNTING -- Check station results indicate slightly more elk are being taken by a slightly smaller number of hunters this year in the Idaho Panhandle. "In VERY general terms, bull elk success rates are looking decent at both check stations (Enaville and St. Maries), and…
FISHING -- Mike Speer was fishing by the Goat Farm area of Lake Roosevelt last weekend with his friend, Steve Alexander, who hooked this 32-inch-long, 10-pound walleye. Each of the two Spokane Valley anglers was trolling a perch-colored fly and a worm, nothing more, Speer…
HUNTING -- Hunters are taking a few more wolves this season than in the first season of wolf hunting in the Idaho Panhandle. Wildlife managers say that trend along with this year's new tool in wolf management -- trapping -- should help get the wolf…
FLY FISHING – Learn basics of fly fishing for steelhead Saturday, (Nov. 5) 9:30 a.m.-3 p.m., at Silver Bow Fly Shop. 13210 E. Indiana Ave. $30. A beginner fly tying class on how to tie six effective basic patterns, runs Nov. 14-15, 6-9 p.m. $75.…
WETLANDS CONSERVATION -- Joseph Hautman of Plymouth, Minn., won the 2011 Federal Duck Stamp Contest on Saturday with his acrylic painting of a single wood duck. Hautman has previously won the contest three times, in 1991, 2001 and 2007. His art will be made into…
Rich Landers writes and photographs stories and columns for a wide range of outdoors coverage, including Outdoors feature sections on Sunday and Thursday.
