OUTDOOR ATTRACTIONS -- Kootenai Falls near Libby and Ross Creek Cedars in the Bull River Valley always are worth a visit and a look. But Western Montana outdoor photographer Jaime Johnson has a way of making you wonder why you haven't made time lately for…
MOUNTAINEERING -- Spokane Mountaineer John Roskelley is mentioned in a new climbing novel and serves as an inspiration for one of the characters, says author/climber Nick O’Connell of Seattle. The Storms of Denali, is a disaster epic that O'Connell ranks in the tradition of Into…
FISHING -- As the graphs suggest, steelhead are moving over Bonneville Dam and heading up the Columbia, but a thermal barrier of warm water in the Snake River is keeping the fish from heading into Idaho. The chart for Lower Granite Dam shows low numbers…
HUNTING -- Because some controlled hunt already have started, Idaho Fish and Game just announced it will not include leftover tags for those hunts in a second drawing in late August. Rather than include them in the second drawings, which comes near the end of…
FORESTS -- Until a bridge is repaired, access to the Barnaby Buttes Trailhead and many prized huckleberry picking patches on the Colville National Forest will require a much longer drive for those used to accessing them off of South Fork Sherman Creek Road. The South…
FISHING -- The Newman Lake Open Muskie Tournament is set for Aug. 18 sponsored by Mountain Muskies, the local Muskies Inc. chapter. Registration starts at 6 a.m. at Newman Lake Resort. A mandatory meeting for participants starts at 6:45 a.m. Competition runs 7. a.m.-5 p.m.…
WILDLIFE WATCHING -- Ospreys are going to grab a little of the spotlight Sunday (Aug. 5) during the popular Festival at Sandpoint musical extravaganza. Biologist Janie Fink, founder of Birds of Prey Northwest, will present a program with live raptors during the Festival’s Family Day…
HUNTING– The 2012 Washington State Duck Calling Championship is Aug. 25, sponsored by the Washington Waterfowl Association, Yakima Valley Chapter. The event, a qualifier for international competition, will be held at Columbia Park in Kennewick. Contests include: Washington state Duck Calling Championship, open only to…
NATIONAL FORESTS -- Crews have reopened all the primary roads on the Colville National Forest since a July 20 storm leveled trees on roughly 4,000 acres of the 1.1 million-acre forest. Most of the damage was on the Republic Ranger District. Some of the seconary…
WATERFOWL HUNTING -- Preliminary surveys indicate a wet spring is just ducky for waterfowl. While the jury's still out on whether pheasants and other upland birds will produce many young after the wetness that smothered our region during nesting, ducks apparently prospered throughout much of…
SALMON FISHING -- A selective chinook fishery opens Saturday on the lower Wenatchee River. Read on for the details from the Washington Department of Fish and Wildlife.
SALMON FISHING -- The boom of sockeye this year has prompted the Washington Fish and Wildlife Department to hold a sockeye fishings season on Lake Wenatchee starting Saturday. Read on for the details from WDFW.
WILDLIFE -- After a letter to the editor on Sunday made claims about gray wolves that don't seem to be substantiated published wildlife science, I asked for a reaction from several wolf experts. Some of that information appears today in my weekly Outdoors column. Washington…
NATIVE PLANTS -- The huckleberry bush, the most revered shrub in the Inland Northwest, is getting less respect as berry pickers succumb to greed. Practices are getting so bad, the Forest Service has issued a media release warning that recently observed practices -- such as…
WATER SPORTS – Two events that promote paddling sports are scheduled this month along the Spokane River. Spokane River Festival for paddlers, Saturday starting at 11 a.m., is being organized by local kayak and rafting groups Saturday at Glover Field in Peaceful Valley. The event,…
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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