IDAHO WILDLIFE -- A report summarizing comments from some 500 participants in the three-day 2012 Idaho Wildlife Summit is available on the Idaho Fish and Game website. The Summit convened in late August to facilitate conversation among Idaho hunters, anglers, trappers and other wildlife conservationists.…
ENVIRONMENT -- I was in high school when the rivers were catching fire in Cleveland. The Clean Water Act, a series of amendments to a limp 1948 law, was approved by Congress 40 years ago and put into action by the Environmental Protection Agency. It…
CLIMBING -- See mind-boggling vertical rock climbing feats in a FREE presenation of the Reel Rock 7 film tour starting 7 p.m., Nov. 1, at Mountain Gear, 2002 N. Division St.
PUBLIC LANDS -- National parks will be waiving entrance fees to celebrate Veterans Day weekend, Nov. 10-12. The Park Service is waiving fees for a total of 17 days in 2012. The Veterans Day weekend fee waiver is the last scheduled for the year. Offering…
HUNTING -- As sportsmen are bringing deer, elk and moose in from the field for processing, the Washington Fish and Wildlife Department offers this clarification on how do deal with your big-game transport tag. Where does my deer/elk tag stay if half my meat is…
HUNTING -- My friend, John, has bagged two bull elk in Idaho this year, owing to skill, luck and investing in resident and nonresident tags. His friends have made a lot of jokes on how much he's hated for showing us up, but of course…
TRAIL MAPPING -- Soon you'll be able to look intimately at a trail on your computer or smartphone before launching out to hike, bike or ride a horse on it. Google has begun applying it's Street View technology to the backcountry. In its first official…
SURVIVAL -- Although you should never depend on a cell phone to be your ticket safety in an outdoor survival situation, it has obvious benefits -- if the battery isn't dead, if it works, if you have coverage, etc. But even if you cell phone…
WILDLIFE WATCHING -- Trail cams are opening our eyes to rarely seen intimate lives of reclusive animals. There's no better example than the photo above of four cougars in Montana -- likely a mother an her three adult-size offspring. Drew Shearer, a Bitterroot Valley bowhunter,…
STATE PARKS -- Warren Walker found this moody scene Monday on the trail near the Bald Knob picnic area on Mount Spokane.
ENDANGERED SPECIES -- Wolves continue to consume, among other things, a lot of time, money and attention in Washington. Read on for an Associated Press report that rounds up what state Fish and Wildlife officials are doing and proposing as we head into winter, a…
WILDLIFE RESEARCH -- The Friends of the Scotchman Peaks Wilderness once again is asking people to vote online before Sunday (Oct. 28) to help the group garner $27,600 in requested grants from Zoo Boise that would be applied to wolverine research in the Idaho Panhandle.…
HUNTING – Eastern Washington deer check station results indicate that hunters have been filling their tags at a higher rate than last year. And the last buck of the general season checked Sunday afternoon in the Methow area (left) sported the largest set of antlers…
FISHING --Starting immediately, anglers can keep any hatchery steelhead on the Hanford Reach of the Columbia River, the Washington Fish and Wildlife Department has just announced. This action removes the requirement for both an adipose fin clip and ventral fin clip for hatchery steelhead retained…
WILDLIFE LAWS -- Feeding black bears has always been a bad idea, but starting this year, it's also against the law in Washington. Two new state laws went into effect in June that prohibit – intentionally or otherwise – leaving food or food waste in…
WILDLIFE -- I go home to my hunting roots in Montana every year at this time, and the photo below (click continue reading) by Montana outdoor photographer Jaime Johnson illustrates one of the reasons why. A photo I made from my annual Montana hunting trip,…
FISHING -- The first half of October has produced good fishing for chinook salmon on the the Hanford Reach of the Columbia. Here's the Oct. 1-14 creel report just posted by the Washington Department of Fish and Wildlife. WDFW staff interviewed 659 anglers from 276…
WINTER SPORTS -- Stevens Pass Ski Area, up U.S. 2 from Leavenworth, will be opening for the 75th season this winter after investing more than $1 Million in improvements. Among them: Trail Brush Cutting & Glading– Normally overrun by brush, even the Corona Bowl, the…
SPORTSMEN ONLINE -- Idaho Fish and Game officials sat down Friday with 158 waterfowl hunters from all over the state, answering their quesstions about waterfowl hunting and management -- and nobody had to leave their officer or home. The agency's first online chat. For example:…
View Larger Map ORIENTEERING -- The Eastern Washington Orienteering Club will celebrate haunting season in the fifth annual Vampire O event Saturday (Oct. 20) at Manito Park. Participants will search for control points by headlamp or flashlight, but they must be constantly on the lookout…
TRAILS -- Beginning Monday (Oct. 22) through Friday (Oct. 26) the popular 7-mile loop trail at Liberty Lake Regional Park will be closed for trail renovation that includes blasting. Rock will be removed in an area to widen and level the trail. The work is…
HUNTING -- Giving up the chance to apply for big-game hunting permits is one of the many sacrifices military personnel make for their service. Oregon is trying to change that. Oregon soldiers like U.S. Marine Corps 1st Lt. James Nash can't plan a trip home…
RIVERS -- An environmental group has filed a lawsuit against Idaho after officials including Gov. C.L. “Butch” Otter approved a plan to dredge the Salmon River for gold, the Associated Press reports. The Idaho Conservation League on Tuesday asked a 4th District Court judge to…
REFUGES – Turnbull National Wildlife Refuge and Spokane Audubon Society are organizing an annual work party and potluck for Saturday, (Oct. 20) in the ongoing community effort to restore native riparian habitat to benefit birds and other wildlife species. Volunteers will plant hundreds of native…
FISHING/HUNTING -- Having trouble finding birds to shoot during the upland bird hunting season? No worries. Put that bird dog to use retrieving a fish dinner. Video shows how easy it is.
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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