TRAILS -- A packed house showed up last night at the new Jefferson Elementary School for the city-sponsored meeting to unveil new plans for the $6.8 million project that will repave and remodel High Drive while changing access to the South Hill bluff trails. The…
RIVERS -- Here's a tip of the hat to the 64 volunteers who volunteered on a weekend in October to plant 550 trees and shrubs and install fencing and improvements to restore the Spokane River shoreline at the state line river access site. Read the…
WILDLIFE MANAGEMENT -- It was 75 years ago today that Idaho’s first successful voter initiative created the Idaho Fish and Game Commission and placed the Fish and Game Department under its authority. Though Idaho Fish and Game was created by the Legislature in 1899, for…
WILDLIFE WATCHING -- Two Vancouver Island blacktail bucks put on a show in a Nanaimo, British Columbia, neighborhood a few days ago as they battled for dominance during the rut -- the deer mating season.
GEOCACHING -- Cache Advance, Inc., is opening the second geocaching retail store in the United States right here in Spokane. The Cache Cave grand opening at 2324 E. Euclid Ave., Suite 204, is set for Saturday, Nov. 9, noon-5 p.m., with a ribbon cutting and…
PUBLIC LANDS -- The federal government said today it is collecting $168,500 to cover fire suppression costs after an Illinois man ignited a 440-acre blaze in central Idaho in 2012 while shooting at an exploding target. According to a story by the Associated Press, the…
HUNTING -- Today's Outdoors column on the topic of hunting and trespassing generated a quick response from reader John Huckabay: One question arises that I have never been able to get a straight answer on. You note that to enter private land in Washington to…
FISHING -- Solid winter trout fisheries are hot items. Check out this report from Mark Morical of the Bend Bulletin about Central Oregon's Crooked River, a trout stream that lures fly fishers from far and wide, especially to the 7-mile stretch below Bowman Dam.
HUNTING -- There's sad news in this comment by Capt. Dan Rahn in the weekly Washington Fish and Wildlife police report for far-eastern Washington following the opening weekend of elk hunting season: Every officer commented on the overall decline in hunter numbers combined with an…
UPDATED 11-6-13 at 3:10 p.m. WILDLIFE WATCHING -- This year's crop of trumpeter swans was still putting on a snow last week for visitors to Turnbull National Wildlife Refuge headquarters area. For the first time in decades, two pairs pulled of clutches of cygnets this…
HUNTING -- If you've witnessed what a bullet from a hunting rifle does to the inside of a deer or elk, you'll be shocked by this blurb in the weekly Washington Fish and Wildlife police report rounding up enforcement activity from the opening weekend of…
WILDLIFE WATCHING -- Spawning kokanee provide vivid autumn wildlife viewing opportunities at several classic sites in the Inland Northwest. Edward Cairns employed his Go-Pro video camera on Monday and took advantage of the easy-access viewing at the south end of Sullivan Lake near Metaline Falls,…
WINTER SPORTS -- A harbinger of things to come, the groomers hit the slopes at Lookout Pass Ski Area early this morning to start packing and preparing the snow for the upcoming season.
TRAILS -- As today's news story points out, City of Spokane engineers are ready to present a new plan for the $6.8 million High Drive street project after public criticism of initial proposals this summer and fall sent them back to the drawing board. The…
OLYMPIA - A huge addition to a state wildlife area in Kittitas County will be considered for purchase by the Washington Fish and Wildlife Commission during its meeting Friday and Saturday (Nov. 8-9) in Olympia. Also on the agenda, is a report on the status…
ADVENTURE -- Here's a Canadian survival story with an unusual twist that has some animal lovers saying a desperate man made a heartless decision. But doctors treating Marco Lavoie after his rescue in the wilderness of northern Quebec say he may not have survived his…
HUNTING -- A two-page spread in a popular deer hunting magazine that included trophy photographs of bucks got an Oklahoma City man in trouble with the law, federal prosecutors said last week. Officials said the buck was illegally shot in Washington's Capitol State Forest before…
PUBLIC LANDS -- The Sullivan Lake Ranger Station will be temporarily closed Nov. 12 and reopening on Nov. 20 during construction in the visitor lobby. General district and forest information, as well as firewood cutting permit will be available at the Newport Ranger Station located…
OCEANS -- Marine scientists are finding a large number of dead starfish along the West Coast stricken with a disease that causes the creatures to lose their arms and disintegrate. The Associated Press reports the starfish are dying from “sea star wasting disease,” an affliction…
HUNTING -- Congratulations! You finally killed that trophy specimen that eluded you for many seasons and countless hunts. You made celebratory stops at your buddy’s house and then the local meat processor. The taxidermist is next. But, unlike your previous hunts, this time there’s another…
WILDLIFE WATCHING -- A reader called today wondering if the animals he saw west of Spokane recently were wolves or coyotes. He didn't have a photo to help with the identification and he didn't measure tracks, so there's no way to tell for sure. The…
HUNTING -- "Did you get your elk?" a colleague asked this morning as I returned to the office after eight days away in the Blue Mountains. "Yes," I nodded enthusiastically. "How many?" my co-worker continued. I grimaced slightly. "I'm not a hunter," he noted.
HUNTING -- His boasting on Facebook apparently has helped Washington Fish and Wildlife police make a case on a 24-year-old Okanogan man and charge him with 33 counts of illegal hunting activities involving trophy mule deer. The case was made nine months after the agency…
PREDATORS -- In some cases, the Internet is incredibly predictable. Shortly after Wind River Outdoor World posted this photo on its Facebook page on Oct. 28, the photo has been galloping around the Web for different reasons on pro-wolf and anti-wolf sites. The Facebook caption…
FISHING -- Sunfish, the midgets of inland lake fisheries, have won new stature in the saltwater of Washington's Puget Sound. A mola weighing up to 350 pounds was caught within view of the Seattle skyline on Tuesday night. It took four men to pull the…
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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