FISHING -- The Idaho Fish and Game Department's “Take Me Fishing” trailers have geared up and scheduled 16 days of equipping novice anglers for fishing fun at Idaho Panhandle lakes. Stocked with fishing tackle, the trailers travel to local fishing spots to promote fishing. Each...
OUTDOOR SKILLS -- Idaho college students have proved they can shoot, call game and find their way with the best of them. The University of Idaho Student Chapter of The Wildlife Society brought home top honors from the Western Student Conclave, one of five regional...
THREATENED SPECIES -- Idaho officials have approved a plan to protect habitat for greater sage grouse on state endowment lands as part an effort to avoid a federal listing of the bird under the Endangered Species Act. The Associated Press reports that Gov. C.L. “Butch”…
OUTDOOR PHOTOGRAPHY -- If you haven't been checking out The Spokesman-Review's Outdoor Reader Photo Gallery, you don't know what you're missing. Tim Colquhoun, for example, just posted a dramatic photo series of an osprey diving into Fernan lake to snatch a big fish. Awesome. Check...
WILDLIFE -- More bad news for bighorn sheep. Six young bighorns that escaped the fence around the 19,000-acre National Bison Range near Ravalli, Mont., were shot last week in a measure to confront disease that's been killing the wild sheep on several fronts. Sport hunting…
PREDATORS -- Eleven wolves were killed in the Southern Selkirk Mountains of British Columbia during a winter effort to reduce predation on endangered woodland caribou that range in Canada as well as in Idaho and Washington. Another 73 wolves were killed farther north to boost...
FISHING -- The annual Red's Rendezvous along the Yakima River, set for Saturday, April 25, has an attractive schedule of events and seminars to lure fly fishers from across the state. The event will run 10 a.m.-4 p.m. at Red's Fly Shop and Lodge south...
HUNTING -- It's too late for a Minnesota hunter, but his bad experience last fall during an out-of-state elk hunt has prompted the Montana Legislature to change a law dealing with tagging big-game immediately upon kill. Here's the update by Billings Gazette outdoor writer Brett…
FISHING -- There's a big difference this week between Medical Lake and West Medical Lake near the Cheney. Fishing will open at West Medical with the general lowland lake season opener on Saturday, April 25. The daily limit will be five trout. Use of bait...
TRAILS -- The Spokane Mountaineers are planning a series of events this year to celebrate the club’s centennial, including a free program, The Making of 100 Hikes, starting at 7 p.m. on Monday at Mountain Gear Corporate Offices, 6021 N. Mansfield. Rich Landers -- that's...
ENVIRONMENT -- Green Fire, the first full-length, high-definition documentary film about legendary conservationist Aldo Leopold, will be screened at 6:30 p.m. Tuesday, April 21, at the Community Building Lobby. Admission is free. The film showing sold out when it debuted in 2013 at the Riverfront…
CYCLING -- Travelers visiting Washington State, including Puget Sound, for business or pleasure shouldn't forget their bikes. Following is a rundown of 10 favorite bike rides from the leader of the Cascade Bicycle Club in a Seattle Times story moved by the Associated Press. The…
NATURE -- The showy bloom of arrowleaf balsamroot has turned portions of the South Hill bluff into a wild version of sunflower fields. The bloom is peaking under delicate white blossoms of serviceberry. There's no better time to hike the 25 miles or so of...
FISHING -- Anglers have a responsibility to gear up properly to reduce break offs and clean up line and tackle as much as possible, whether it's theirs or that of another fisherman. A lot of critters are out there making a living in and under...
PUBLIC LANDS -- A gate has been opened temporarily at Escure Ranch allowing motor vehicles to drive the rough road less than three miles into Towell Falls, the U.S. Bureau of Land Management's Spokane office says. The 14,000-acre BLM Rock Creek Recreation Area site south…
PUBLIC LANDS -- Climber-cyclists Eric Barrett has a first-person reason for repeating the warning state park rangers preach to visitors leaving their vehicles in any park or Centennial Trail trailhead. Hey Riverside State Park users, I had my car broken into at Bowl & Pitcher...
PUBLIC LANDS -- Services remain limited at Glacier National Park, but access is gradually opening earlier than normal as snow recedes. The road to Two Medicine and a loop of the Two Medicine Campground near East Glacier should be opening this weekend. Glacier National Park…
FISHING -- Fly fishermen will be interested in the latest news coming from Western Montana's Big Hole and Bitterroot rivers: Record brown trout numbers cited as reason for fungus in Montana river The spread of a fungal infection known as Saprolegnia in the Big Hole...
HUNTING -- Here's another unusual report from the April 15 opening day of Washington's spring gobbler season. This one, along with several photos, is from long-time Spokane-area hunter Ivan Lines: Hi Rich: Enjoyed your turkey hunting story in the paper this morning. I've experienced all...
WILDLIFE WATCHING -- April is like party time for prairie grouse, as Montana outdoor photographer Jaime Johnson reminds us with this photo of a dancing male sharptail. Johnson shot the image above this week in Montana from a blind at the site -- known as...
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.
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