HUNTING/FISHING -- Washington sportsmen will need new 2012-2013 hunting and fishing licenses starting April 1. Remember, even if you buy a new license, you still must have your 2011-2012 license in your pocket while hunting or fishing through March 31. Spring chinook salmon are moving…
FISHING/HUNTING -- Speakers will provide updates on Idaho Legislature activity of interest to hunters and anglers, as well as an update on the spring chinook salmon forecast at the monthly Sportsman's Breakfast in Lewiston on March 6. Other presentations will cover big game issues and…
ENDURANCE – Spokane ultra marathon runner Lisa Bliss will present a program on her solo epic of running unsupported through Death Valley to the summit of Mount Whitney on Thursday, 7 p.m., at REI. She finished the grueling 146 miles from the lowest point in…
WILDLIFE WATCHING -- Another great assortment of field trips and programs is being organized for the 15th annual Othello Sandhill Crane Festival, March 23-25 based from Othello, Wash., and the Columbia National Wildlife Refuge. The festival highlights the spring migration of large, lanky and gorgeous…
MOUNTAINS -- The historic Timberline Lodge at Mount Hood turns 75 years old in this year. Built during the Great Depression as a key part of President Franklin D. Roosevelt’s New Deal-WPA projects, the lodge has served FDR’s intention – as “a place to play…
Put away that garden seed catalog. Cross-country ski areas are enjoying the season’s best snow conditions. Mount Spokane: New snow has accumulated every day this week with temperatures largely in the teens and 20s. XCers in most of the world would die for these conditions.…
HUNTING -- Idaho Fish and Game wildlife managers have posted their proposals for Panhandle big-game hunting and will be taking comment public meetings starting Saturday. Of special interest to most hunters are the proposals to reduce elk harvest in some areas. Click continue reading to…
HUNTING -- The site and time for the Silver Valley public meeting on big-game hunting seasons has been changed: Saturday, March 3, in Kellogg, 7:30 a.m. at the Steelworkers Hall, 110 Hill St.
SKIING — Downhill skiing marathoners are conditioning their legs or gathering teams for the fourth annual “24 Hours of Schweitzer” March 30-31 at Schweitzer Mountain Resort -- a fundraiser for a good cause. Also known as "24 Hours for Hank," the event seeks participants to…
WINTER SPORTS -- Wonderful deep powder is calling all backcountry snow worshipers today, and the Idaho Panhandle Avalanche Center is recommending that you go and get after it -- but consider staying on the lower angle slopes! The best snow avalanche technicians found during the…
BOATING -- Wet Dream is out, Dream Weaver is in. Popular names for boats are changing with the times, according to the 22nd annual survey of the most popular boat names by Boat Owners Association of the United States. “A boat name reflects the life…
FISHING -- Fishing season opened today in a select group of lakes, mostly in Central Washington. While success rates weren't good everywhere, some lakes -- notably Upper Caliche, Martha, Burke and Quincy Lakes -- were the best in recently years, said Chad Jackson, Washington Department…
ANIMALS -- People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals, an out-there animal rights and anti-hunting group, acknowledged Wednesday that it euthanized 95 percent of the animals at a shelter at its Virginia headquarters last year. PETA also indicated it would like to kill the messanger.…
HUNTING – The numbers resemble the parameters for wild turkey hunts -- but it’s the 2012 Idaho Panhandle wolf hunting and trapping proposals that have just been released by Jim Hayden, Idaho Fish and Game Department regional wildlife manager in Coeur d’Alene: Hunting Bag limit,…
HUNTING -- I'll bet wildlife mangers are wishing prey species such as elk and deer were this resilliant. Despite months of open hunting, Montana's grey wolf population increased by about 15 percent in 2011. A report issued by Montana Fish, Wildlife and Parks said the…
PUBLIC LANDS -- The U.S. Forest Service has just released the following statement regarding a federal court decision on fees charged for access to some national forest trailheads. A recent article that appeared in news outlets around the country misportrayed a recent court decision that…
HUNTING -- The flap continues in California over the Fish and Game Commission president who came to Idaho for a legally guided cougar hunt. His home-state anti-hunting creeps are wailing for him to resign since cougars can't be hunted in California. Forty state legislators sent…
SHELLFISH -- Just kidding with the headline. I know the difference between clams and waterfowl. But for a long time, it seems, ducks have had more protection than the great goeduck of Washington's beaches. Numbers of the largest, oldest and most bizarre-looking wild clam species…
WILDLIFE -- Motorists see a lot of wildlife -- dead and alive -- while driving I-90 over Snoqualmie Pass, and they're willing to share their sightings. In the first-year of a motorist based wildlife monitoring program, nearly 7,000 visits were logged into the Wildlife Watch…
HUNTING -- With concern for elk herds still high on the list of issues, the Idaho Department of Fish and Game has scheduled four public meetings in the Idaho Panhandle to discuss 2012 big-game hunting seasons for deer, bear, lion, wolves and elk. In some…
BICYCLING -- March means bicyclists soon will be blooming in profusion. Here's an instructive poster to check out from Big Thigh Country.
STATE PARKS -- The Washington state House has passed HB 2373, which would allow two cars to share one Discover Pass, a $30, year-long parking pass for state parks and some other state lands. Unlike a similar bill that recently passed the Senate unanimously, the…
PUBLIC LANDS -- The fees forest visitors have been paying to access trailheads in some national forests may be history following a federal court ruling. The Ninth Circuit Court of appeals recently ruled the U.S. Forest Service "Federal Lands Access Enhancement Fees" are not legal.…
FLY FISHING -- Weather put a chill on the Yakima skwala hatch today. Scored with Pat's Rubberlegs under an indicator, though. Dry flies ready... and waiting for a week, more likely two. Patience.
RIVERS -- American Whitewater, a national river and river running advocacy group, needs support to continue standing up for free-flowing rivers that are always under pressure for water demands. Last year, the group had a voice in taking down a few dams, protecting flows in…
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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