WINTER SPORTS -- Mt. Spokane Ski and Snowboard Park has moved up another administrative step toward developing a new ski lift and seven new ski runs on the west side of the mountain, on an 850-acre area known as the Potential Alpine Ski Expansion Area…
PUBLIC LANDS -- Traditional uses can be overpowered by heavy public use of popular public lands. Agreement puts trapping off-limits in area of Montana national forest The Bass Creek Recreation Area in the Bitterroot National Forest gets the second highest number of visitors in the…
HUNTING -- Wyoming lawmakers will decide in coming months whether to follow a growing national trend and allow the use of silencers on hunting guns -- a practice already permitted in 39 states. See today's story here. The law is being promoted by companies that…
FISHING -- Steelhead fisheries on the upper Columbia River will close one hour after sunset on Saturday (Dec. 1) from Wells Dam to the Highway 173 bridge at Brewster and on the Wenatchee, Icicle, Entiat, and Methow rivers. Several whitefish fisheries scheduled to open that…
Outdoor enthusiasts may see footwear prices jump 30 percent Unless Congress can negotiate with the Obama administration's opposition to outdoor industry duty suspension bills, the cost of footgear for hiking, biking and other outdoor activities that are manufactured overseas will increase prices nearly 38 percent,…
WATERFOWLING -- How crazy could it get if Washington had allowed electronic waterfowl decoys? Check out this video.
WINTER SPORTS -- The Methow Valley Sport Trails Association is opening portions of its 120-mile groomed nordic trail system to bicycles this year. Skiers headed out on a few of the nationally celebrated nordic trails that had enough snow for grooming this week. When more…
HUNTING -- While we're on the subject of parasites and other buggers in the meat of the fish and game sportsmen might bring home from the field, here are a couple of subjects I did not cover in today's outdoors column: Rabbits should be well-cooked…
WILDLIFE WATCHING -- Here's the latest snowy owl sighting from Lincoln County: At 3:09 p.m. Wednesday for about 30 minutes we had very close-up eye level views of a Snowy Owl sitting on a wooden fence post approximately 1.1 miles west of Hwy. 231 on…
WILDLIFE -- A moose was freed from a strange backyard entanglement this summer thanks to a brave Utah deputy and a pair of cutters. Maybe you read the story about the bold and unusual rescue. But the video above offers a clearer image. Anyone who's…
WILDLIFE WATCHING -- While bald eagles have move into the Lake Coeur d'Alene area for a winter feast of kokanee, the ospreys that put on a fishing show all summer long in the area left the area by early November and are migrating to warmer…
HUNTING/FISHING -- My outdoors column this week discusses some of the disturbing parasites waterfowl hunters and anglers have discovered in the ducks and fish they've harvested in the Inland Northwest. They're natural; been around for a long time, and in most cases the game and…
HUNTING -- If you were running away from your troubles, the Palouse was a good place to be pheasant hunting on Tuesday. Visibilty was minimal. A good place to hide. Hunting partner Torsten Kjellstrand caught a photo of me (photo above) through the fog cruising…
HUNTING -- More details on the U.S. Senate vote this week turning down the Sportsmen's Act: Alabama senator: Sportsmen's bill exceeded spending limits The failure of the U.S. Senate to pass the Sportsmen's Act of 2012, sponsored by Montana U.S. Sen. Jon Tester, came as…
WILDLIFE WATCHING -- The bald eagles didn't disappoint the two boat cruises full of dedicated veterans and active military and their families out on Lake Coeur d'Alene on Saturday. Continue reading for the story from the U.S. Bureau of Land Management.
WILDLIFE WATCHING -- Reports of snowy owl sightings have been coming in from all over. Snowshoers reported two of the arctic migrants making a brief pit stop on the towers on top of Mount Spokane. Another observer found one hanging out at Reardan Ponds at…
ENDANGERED SPECIES -- The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service has downsized its recommendation by more than 10 times for woodland caribou critical habitat in the Sellkirk Mountains. In a country accustomed to supersizing everything, this is a notable example of supershrink. See story. The map…
WILDLIFE WATCHING -- The big start the annual bald eagle gathering got at Lake Coeur d'Alene last week -- reported in this detailed blog post -- took a big leap in the past seven days, according to the weekly count conducted today by Carrie Hugo,…
FISHING -- A proposed plan to restructure salmon and sturgeon fisheries on the lower Columbia River is available for review on the Washington Department of Fish and Wildlife’s website. The recommendations, posted today, were developed by a work group of representatives from Washington and Oregon…
WILDLIFE WATCHING -- A bird that migrated all the way south from the arctic helped Kootenai County birders break a record on Monday. Coeur d'Alene Audubon Society members working on the annjual Big Year challenge for Kootenai County spotted a snowy owl -- the 208th…
In case you missed them, here are some of the top outdoors stories published in The Spokesman-Review Sunday and today: New groomer gears up to tackle Mount Spokane's expanded nordic trail system Field Reports: Methow Valley requires ski passes for pooches Out & About: Sportsmen…
OUTDOOR SPORTS -- A new partnership between the Boy Scouts of America and the Missoula-based Boone and Crockett Club could make Montana a premier destination for scouts from across the nation. The Montana Council of Boy Scouts is assuming operation of a “high adventure base”…
Elk hunter in Wyoming national park kills charging grizzly bear In what is being categorized as a first, elk hunters shot and killed a charging grizzly bear in Grand Teton National Park on Thanksgiving morning, according to the Jackson Hole Daily.
Some components of 'Sportsmen's Act' concern environmental groups Today, the U.S. Senate will vote on, and likely pass, Montana U.S. Sen. Jon Tester's "Sportsmen's Act of 2012," a grab bag of bills dealing with hunting, fishing, conservation and public access measures, but environmental groups said…
RIVERS -- Joe Peak, owner of the Enaville Resort, a.k.a. the Snake Pit, on the North Fork Coeur d'Alene River, has died at 66.
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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