WILDLIFE -- The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service today announced it is seeking comment on its proposal to protect the West Coast population of fisher as a threatened species under the Endangered Species Act. About the size of large house cats, fishers belong to a…
WILDLIFE – State wildlife officials plan to capture and remove eight bighorn ewes in southeast Washington this week to curb the spread of a bacteria deadly to other wild sheep in the area. A contractor for the Washington Department of Fish and Wildlife (WDFW) and…
ENDANGERED SPECIES -- Pro-wolf groups praised the Washington Fish and Wildlife Department's decision to attempt to capture the Ruby Creek wolf and put it in a Western Washington wildlife park to avoid conflicts with humans in rural areas near Ione. Even though the Ruby Creek…
ENDANGERED SPECIES -- State wildlife officials are likely to hear from angry ranchers at a meeting Tuesday in Colville to discuss wolf management. The department says it will provide information about recent wolf attacks on sheep and cattle in northeast Washington. The predation and the…
RIVERS -- I'm getting bits and pieces of good news from the late September Upriver Scrub, in which volunteers rallied to clean-up portions of the Spokane River. While the annual Spokane River Clean-up was on hiatus this year, the upriver activities, a regular event by…
WINTERSPORTS -- A free snowmobile safety course for youths ages 12-16 is set for Nov. 8 at the Spokane Winter Knights Snow Show at the Spokane County Fair & Expo Center. Pre-register by Friday, Oct. 10. The snowmobile safety course training includes: Basic snowmobile maintenance.…
CYCLING -- So, why did the bicycle fall over? Answer: Because it wast two-tired.
Rich Landers writes and photographs stories and columns for a wide range of outdoors coverage, including Outdoors feature sections on Sunday and Thursday.
