NATIONAL FORESTS -- A proposal that would allow ski areas to potentially expand activities to biking, zip lines and rope courses — legislation that likely would create jobs in mountain towns — passed the U.S. Senate late Tuesday and is likely to be signed quickly…
TRAILS -- Mountain bikers, hikers and equestrians are gathering in November for another blitz to build an epic trail east of Republic, Wash., -- and they can use more help. "Last October, over a dozen volunteers from Conservation Northwest, Spokane Mountaineers, Washington Trails Association and…
WILDLIFE -- Montana wildlife photographer Jaime Johnson captured the power of a brown bear fishing for salmon during a recent visit to Alaska. One fish escapes, but look closely underwater to see the big one that didn't get away from the bruin.
FISHING -- Idaho Fish and Game officials just posted this notice to holders of three-day salmon-steelhead permits fishing in waters and at times when steelhead and chinook salmon both are present and can be caught and kept: Differentiate harvest of the two species on your…
HUNTING -- Former Spokanite Adam Lynn returns from the West Side every fall to hunt with friends on the opening weekend of Washington's modern rifle deer hunting season. He routinely shows up everyone in his group with his uncanny instinct for where the game will…
SKIING -- Washington Fish and Wildlife Deparment biologists recently hiked through the sites on Mount Spokane where the State Parks Commission approved new ski runs for the expansion of the Mt. Spokake Ski and Snowboard Park. The WDFW formally opposed the expansion of the new…
WILDLIFE ENCOUNTERS -- A big deal is made of human encounters with predators such as bears and wolves. But a wide range of wildlfie -- including prey species such as deer -- can become dangerous when conditioned to lose their fear of humans. I blogged…
WATERFOWLING -- Idaho Fish and Game officials say the time chart on Page 11 in the 2011-2012 Waterfowl Seasons and Rules book has some incorrect times for five days in January in southern Idaho area. The opening times on January 22 through 27 in the…
WILDLIFE -- A rare sight to behold: A sow black bear and her four cubs take refuge in a tree near U.S. Highway 93 just south of Whitefish, Mont., on Monday. The family of bears quickly drew a crowd as both sides of the highway…
WILDLIFE MANAGEMENT -- The Idaho Fish and Game Commission will meet Nov. 9, 10 and 11 in Coeur d’Alene. A public comment period is scheduled to start at 7 p.m. Nov. 9. The commission’s routine agenda includes appointing a commission representative to Western Association of…
STEELHEAD FISHING -- The fish are still running up the Snake and over Lower Granite Dam in numbers over 1,000 a day, but the number of new fish heading into Idaho waters is slowing. The steelhead count over Bonneville Dam at the mouth of the…
DEER HUNTING – Apparently there was plenty of elbow room in northeastern Washington for the opening weekend of the general rifle deer hunting season. A combination of the economy and the new four-point minimum restriction in Units 117 and 121 appears to be doing a…
PREDATORS -- A group of wolf advocates has requested an emergency halt to wolf hunting in the Rocky Mountains. Although the wolf hunting season has been open for weeks, the prime time for hunters being in the field begins Saturday, with the opening of Montana's…
SALMON FISHING -- The record effort for salmon fishing in the lower Columbia River continues to grow, the Washington Fish and Wildlife Department reports. Through September, an estimated 27,490 adult fall chinook have been caught in the lower Columbia mainstem sport fishery from the Rocky…
WILDLIFE ENCOUNTERS -- What would you say? Matthew LaGrange, a man of the cloth from Texas, was fishing near Estes Park with his friend Dan Scates of Longmont, Colo., as a bull elk slowly herded its harem across the Big Thompson River -- directly at…
NATIONAL PARKS -- Mountain pine beetles that have taken a high toll on the forests of British Columbia are poised to inflict major damage to Jasper National Park and possibly Mount Robson National Park, researchers say. Read the update from the Edmonton Journal.
SHELLFISHING -- Barring any bad news from marine toxin monitoring, Washington's first razor-clam dig of the season is scheduled to begin Oct. 28 on four ocean beaches, with additional digs planned through late December. Read on for details and the season schedule through December.
HUNTING -- Jerry Townsend of Pheasant Valley Shooting Preserve and Sporting Clays near LaCrosse, Wash., is in Sacred Heart Medical Center listed in serious condition after clients found him unconscious by his four-wheeler Saturday, according to Whitman County Sheriff's officials. See our news story.
MOUNTAINEERING -- Gary Guller, the first person with one arm to summit Mount Everest and the leader of the largest cross-disability group to reach the 17,500-foot base camp at Mount Everest Base Camp, brings his motivational story and message to Spokane Community College on Monday…
BIG-GAME HUNTNG -- "Too little. Dang it!" emailed my friend Adam Lynn on Sunday evening. The photograph was the only legal shot he could take at the fork-horn mule deer buck. It summed up his experience on the opening weekend of Washington's deer hunting seas.…
HIKING -- Wear gaitors for hiking in the high country; sunglasses too. The snow and the autumn colors are dazzling. West Side hiker Rick Rocheleau said he had a fantastic hike Sunday to see the larches near Rainy Pass on the North Cascades Highway. (See…
HUNTING -- The new non-toxic shot rules at Eastern Washington pheasant release sites was no deterrent to a few hunters out for the recent youth-only upland bird season. Here's a report from Scott Kuhta, who gathered his sone and dog for a father-son outting on…
PADDLING -- Bill and Debbie Pierce of Spokane will present images the wildlife and culture they explored while sea-kayaking from a mother ship near the Falkland Islands and Antarctica Peninsula in a free program Monday (Oct 17), 7 p.m., at Mountain Gear Corporate Headquarters, 6021…
CAMPING -- Parents love getting notes from their kids indicating they're capable of dealing with adversity -- especially when they maintain their smile while making lemonade from lemons, and inflict comfort and happiness on people around them. Here's a recent email message from my youngest…
HUNTING -- A 55-year-old woman from Headquarters, Idaho, told a newspaper she was glad to be packing a .44 magnum to boost her confidence when a very large wolf responded to her elk cow call by trotting in to within 10 feet. That was a…
Rich Landers writes and photographs stories and columns for a wide range of outdoors coverage, including Outdoors feature sections on Sunday and Thursday.
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