Outdoors blog

Mon., Feb. 18, 2013

Wolves, salmon, elk, guns and more in week’s outdoor news

Elk at the Oak Creek Wildlife Area near Yakima. (TJ MULLINAX / Yakima Herald-Republic)

Here are some of the past week's top outdoors stories in The Spokesman-Review:

Yakima elk have love-hate history with locals

It's official: Wolves in Washington doubled in 2012

Landers: Hunting is ultimate form of tough love

Outdoors blog: readers suggest 6th stage of hunter development

Hummingbirds migrating earlier, study finds

Gear Junkie: Is it the sleeping bag of the future?

Field Reports: Lincoln County deer killing prompts $5,000 reward

Eastern Washington anglers lobby for dependable Snake River chinook quotas

Out & About: Obama gun frenzy sparks conservation dividend

Montana rivers serve tasty mix: fly fishing and beer tasting

Weekly Inland Northwest Hunting-Fishing Report

Posted Feb. 18, 2013, 7:18 a.m.

By Rich Landers

richl@spokesman.com

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Rich Landers joined The Spokesman-Review in 1977. He is the Outdoors editor for the Sports Department writing and photographing stories about hiking, hunting, fishing, boating, conservation, nature and wildlife and related topics.

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