PUBLIC LANDS -- Federal and state land managers offer fee-free entry days to parks, forests, U.S. Bureau of Land management lands, refuges and other national interest lands where fees are charged on certain holidays scattered through the year. The last big freebie of the year…
HUNTING -- Eastern Washington's modern firearms general elk season opens Saturday at 7 a.m. Montana outdoor photographer Jaimie Johnson, in the photo above, gives hunters a couple of things to dream about tonight.
OUTPHOTO – Washington’s modern rifle elk season opens Saturday, giving sportsmen another chance to put aside the rifle, pick up the camera and snap a good photo of the girl or woman out for the hunt. For the fourth year, the Washington Department of Fish…
PREDATORS - One Idaho livestock grower is joining the growing ranks of going against the grain on traditional predator control: Federal agency killed 2,773 coyotes in Idaho in 2013 Most of the coyotes killed by Idaho Wildlife Services in Blaine County were killed at the…
PUBLIC LANDS -- While a Rep. Mike Simpson, R-Idaho, requests a little more time to persuade his party's naysayers to let him usher in a new Idaho wilderness, former Idaho Gov. Cecil Andrus says it's time for action: Andrus urges Idaho Boulder-White Clouds be named…
HUNTING -- Others issues like wolves, EHD in deer and antelope, brucellosis and elk hoof disease have occasionally lured our eye off the chronic wasting disease that became such a big concern more than a decade ago. In 2011, the issue was rekindled with new…
FISHING -- Bummer for a great trout stream: Montana biologists say endemic fungus killing fish in Big Hole River The Saprolegnia fungus is found in nearly every waterway in Montana, and state wildlife biologists said that fungus is what's killing brown trout in the Big…
PARKS -- The third annual Return of the Zombies hike is set for Oct. 25 on what's billed as "the scariest half-mile hike ever" in Riverside State Park. Hikers of all ages are invited to hike the haunted trail between 6 p.m. and 9 p.m.…
OUTDOOR CITIES -- Wilmington, N.C., generated enough votes to edge Spokane this week in a USA TODAY 10 Best Readers' Choice contest for Best American Riverfront. Wilmington "waged a tight but winning battle against Spokane for the top spot and landed the #1 slot after…
ENDANGERED SPECIES -- A gray wolf that was deemed too comfortable with being around rural homes and pet dogs near Ione, Wash., has eluded state trappers intending to put the female wolf into captivity at wildlife facility near Tenio, Wash. State Fish and Wildlife officials…
FISHING -- The first coho fishing season on Idaho's Clearwater River has been capturing a lot of attention this weeke, but fishing guides correctly point out that steelheading -- the bread and butter of late fall fishing in the Snake and Clearwater rivers -- is…
FISHING -- Fisheries managers have proposed a rule that would require anglers to keep all hatchery steelhead they catch on most of southeastern Washington, including the Grande Ronde with the exception of the first 2.5 miles up from the mouth. Anglers would have to stop…
SHOOTING -- The Seattle Times series of stories on lead poisoning issues at shooting ranges is providing more food for thought and action: The youngsters knew their sport could be dangerous, even deadly. But for the junior team at the Vancouver (Wash.) Rifle and Pistol…
FISHING -- A coho fishing season will open on the “middle” Yakima River on Wednesday, Oct. 22, -- for both hatchery and wild fish, the Washington Fish and Wildlife Department has just announced. Location: From the Interstate 82 bridge at Union Gap to the “closed…
FISHING -- "The number of anglers fishing for salmon in the Hanford Reach continues to slowly decline but the fishing remains excellent with 2.7 fall chinook landed per boat," says Paul Hoffarth, Washington Fish and Wildlife Department Columbia River biologist in the Tri-Cities. An estimated…
HUNTING -- A successful morning hunt. Time to get back to the other office.
RIVERS -- A Proposed in-stream flow rule for the Spokane River -- important to anglers and paddlers -- will be presented during an open house meeting on Wednesday. The Washington state Department of Ecology will explain the proposal to visitors starting at 6 p.m. Wednesday,…
STATE PARKS -- The controversial proposal to expand the downhill ski area at Mount Spokane State Park will get another public hearing in Spokane Valley next month. The Washington State Parks and Recreation Commission has announced a special evening public meeting to take testimony about…
FISHING -- Idaho's first specific coho fishing season opened Friday on the Clearwater River and before the weekend was over, the state had a new record for coho salmon. Ethan Crawford caught a 9.4-pound coho in the Clearwater and had it officially weighed, according to…
HUNTING — A unique annual elk hunt in a national park began Saturday. The Grand Teton National Park’s annual elk reduction program will run until Nov. 2. Congress allowed the “controlled reduction” of elk when the park was created in 1950. Hunting is not allowed…
PUBLIC LANDS -- Republican Rep. Mike Simpson of Idaho is asking President Barack Obama to hold off designating a rugged swath of central Idaho as a national monument. Simpson tells the Idaho Statesman that he’s asked the president for six to eight months to give…
PUBLIC LANDS -- The controversial Jumbo Glacier resort in the Purcell Mountains near Invermere, British Columbia, is in a holding pattern after its environmental certificate expired on the weekend, but resort officials say they’re still on track to open the day lodge and a lift…
FISHING -- The North Fork of Clearwater River Road 247 will be closed starting tomorrow, Oct. 21, at milepost 39.3, at Flat Creek for the removal of an aquatic organism barrier culvert, the Clearwater-Nez Perce National Forests announced today. The road closure will run no…
OUTDOOR TRAVEL -- A 10-mile stretch of North Cascades Highway in northcentral Washington will be closed for 34 hours starting Tuesday morning, with no detour route. From 6 a.m. Tuesday through 4 p.m. Wednesday, Oct. 21-22, Highway 20 will be closed between Granite Creek and…
SHOOTING -- Exposure to lead at shooting ranges is a poorly monitored health risk that's affecting shooters and people who work at the facilities in some areas, according to a story in the Seattle Times. Indoor, outdoor, public and private, gun ranges dot the national…
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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