ENDANGERED SPECIES -- It’s official: a pair of California condors are raising a wild chick in Zion National Park, the first chick to be documented in Utah in the bird's recovery under endangered species protections. The nest is in a cavity 1,000 feet above a…
PUBLIC LANDS --Monday's afternoon thunderstorms led to many lightning strikes across the Okanogan-Wenatchee National Forest and surrounding lands starting several new fires, the Forest Service reports. Response crews were dispatched immediately. See the report on small fires also reported on the Colville National Forest. In…
THREATENED SPECIES -- The Idaho Fish and Game Commission last week unanimously approved the nation's first state management plan for sustaining the largest member of the weasel family. The Management Plan for the Conservation of Wolverines in Idaho, developed by Idaho Department of Fish and…
PUBLIC LANDS -- Having a gorgeous state park to honor the Spokane River as it flows out of Spokane is a good reason to smile. This video -- produced by the Riverside State Park Foundation with performances by groovy park rangers, lots of local park…
TRAPPING -- Idaho is in a conundrum as trapping, protected in the state constitution, collides with the pleasure of letting pet dogs run free. Two graphic instances of pet owners watching their dogs die in body-clenching conibear traps in North Idaho has has a big…
FISHING -- Sounds like bucket biologists are back at work in Western Montana. The Department of Fish, Wildlife and Parks is investigating whether a fisherman’s report that he caught two pike in Lake Mary Ronan last month indicates a serious problem. Fisheries biologists plan to…
Rich Landers writes and photographs stories and columns for a wide range of outdoors coverage, including Outdoors feature sections on Sunday and Thursday.
