HUNTING -- Opening-day reports are rolling in from Inland Northwest wild turkey hunters. Family firsts, gobbler doubles and other memory-making hunts are already in the history books and the season runs until the end of May. None is any better than the report from Spokane-are...
SHOOTING -- The Spokane Gun Club will not have to pay more than $40,000 in back taxes at the end of the month on property its owned in Spokane Valley since the 1940s, according to a ruling issued this week. See the story by S-R…
HUNTING -- For the first time, crossbows became legal to use for hunting wild turkeys this morning as Washington's spring gobbler season opened. The change was allowed by an emergency rule vote of the Washington Fish and Wildlife Commission announced on Tuesday. The commission made...
WILDLIFE WATCHING -- Wild peregrine falcons in the process of raising a family are being monitored by a web cam in the nest box above downtown Boise. This is the seventh year the webcam has provided a bird’s eye view of the daily activities of...
PUBLIC LANDS -- Months of strategy meetings and preliminary public meetings are just the start of the work toward a Blue Mountains Forest Plan Revision. A series of community-hosted public engagement meetings are being set up by Forest Service officials in Oregon and southeastern Washington…
Rich Landers writes and photographs stories and columns for a wide range of outdoors coverage, including Outdoors feature sections on Sunday and Thursday.
