CONSERVATION -- Spokane’s REI store, celebrating its 25th anniversary, has recently awarded grants totaling $20,000 to non-profit groups that will leverage the money with volunteer work at several key area outdoors features in the Spokane area: Spokane River Forum,$10,000 – for improving the river access…
OUDOORS HUMOR -- Four guys have been going to the same deer camp for many years. Two days before the group is to leave, Ron's wife puts her foot down and tells him he isn't going. Ron's friends are very upset that he can't go,…
FLY FISHING -- Although British Columbia has set extra fees on alien visitors, and even though the stream is sometimes swarming with guided anglers, the trip up to the Fernie area is still a winner, especially this time of year when the fall colors can…
BIG-GAME HUNTING -- Good luck to all you hunters heading out Monday for the opening of Idaho's general rifle deer hunting season. Whether you bag a deer or not, be sure to stop when you come a cross an Idaho Fish and Game Department hunter…
ROCK CLIMBING -- Pro climber and soloist Alex Honnold appeared on CBS's 60 Minutes last Sunday -- and he scared the crap out of just about everyone who hasn't already voided after seeing his free-climbing exploits in the Banff Mountain Film Festival. Is he the…
ENDANGERED SPECIES -- Passions continued to run high in Washington about the growing wolf population as the state Fish and Wildlife Commission held a special meeting on a proposed wolf management plan Thursday in Olympia. The commission and state Fish and Wildlife Department officials held…
SKIING -- Wolf Creek Ski Area near Pagosa Springs in southwest Colorado says it plans to open for skiing Saturday and Sunday, after a storm left 3 feet of snow. Ski area officials will probably decide Saturday whether to keep going daily for the rest…
OUTDOOR FILMS -- The largest environmental and adventure film festival in North America, is coming to the historic Panida Theatre in Sandpoint tonight and Saturday, sponsored by the Clark Fork-Pend Oreille Conservancy. The festival’s award-winning environmental and outdoor adventure films were chosen from among the…
HUNTING -- Regardless of what species they're stalking, hunters heading into bear, wolf and cougar country -- which it just about everywhere around here -- should be prepared to deal with a close encounter. That means thinking about it before hand and being equipped with…
WILDLIFE WATCHING -- Jaime Johnson, a professional photographer from Montana, recently put a video camera on the bank of an Alaska river where brown bears were frequently walking in search of salmon. The result gets my stomp of approval. Let’s just say the camera got…
BIG-GAME HUNTING -- A new smartphone app for iphone and Android could be a boon to hunters tracking their hunting success with hunting diaries. “Deer Diary, the App for Hunters,” is partnered with a companion website, DeerDiary.com, which synchronizes information with the app. “Deer Diary”…
OUTDOOR TRAVEL -- While dams operated by the Corps of Engineers generally are off-limits to vehicle crossings since the 9/11 attacks, Lower Granite Dam over the Snake River is scheduled to be opened for vehicle traffic Monday as a special Columbus Day treat. Read on…
ENDANGERED SPECIES -- Two groups put the pressure on the Washington Fish and Wildlife Department this week by filing a petition urging the state to strip endangered species protections from gray wolves in the eastern one-third of the state. The petition was filed with the…
TRAILS/ENVIRONMENT -- The Friends of the High Drive Bluff on Spokane's South Hill are coordinating a tree pruning clinic 1 p.m.-4 p.m. on Sunday (Oct. 9) to help generate more helpers to reduce fire danger on the bluffs and improve thee quality of the bluff…
BIRD HUNTING -- I've been hiking a lot of miles of trails the past few months and I've clearly seen the progression of dusky grouse into higher elevations. Males tend to be at higher elevations earlier in the year, while the hens with their broods…
BIRD HUNTING -- Looking for a bird-hunting adventure destination this season? Nevada is putting out the word that it has record-high numbers of chukars in some -- not all -- portions of the state for a season that runs through Feb. 5. Read on for…
WILDLIFE WATCHING -- One of the best wildlife viewing stages anywhere in September and early October is the cottonwood bottom along the elk viewing area in the C.M. Russell National Wildlife Refuge60 miles north of Lewistown, Mont., (my hometown). Even though the elk are in…
SKYWATCHING -- Let's say this photo illustrates a highlight of my recent visit to the C.M. Russell National Wildlife Refuge north of my hometown -- Lewistown, Mont: After hunting and wildlife viewing, I sat in the grass until after midnight one night last week snapping…
SKIING -- Start taking inventory on what you need to acquire and swap for the ski season: The 47th annual Mt. Spokane Ski Patrol Ski SWAP is set for Oct. 28-30. The swap is set to expand into another bay at the Spokane Fair and…
WILDLIFE ENFORCEMENT -- There's nothing lucrative about the life of a Montana game warden, and that's only part of the reason there are job openings. In the past five years, 24 game wardens in Montana -- about a third of the force -- have left…
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…
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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