MOTORSPORTS -- The Desert 100 dirt bike race will be returning to Odessa Saturday and Sunday, April 11-12. Organizers are welcoming hundreds of riders who will be camping in a Lincoln County rancher’s range land for the weekend of festivities in the scablands. The event…
CAMPING -- A summer host for the Bead Lake Boat Launch is being sought by Colville National Forest officials. The volunteer position involves greeting boaters and campers and tending the public sites at the mountain lake nine miles northeast of Newport. The hosts are...
FISHING -- Fishing rods have been rigged up by volunteer sportsmen to hand out to about 950 kids ages 5-14 in the 16th annual Kids Fishing event at Clear Lake on May 2. Kids are being scheduled for half-hour slots between 8 a.m. and 2:45…
WILDLIFE -- The Mule Deer Foundation’s Spokane Chapter will hold its annual local fundraising banquet Saturday, April 11, with dinner starting at 6 p.m. at Mukogawa Fort Wright Commons, 4000 W. Randolph Rd. The foundation’s Washington chapters have put nearly 150 percent of the money...
FISHERIES -- While most anglers are thinking of the spring chinook heading upstream in the Columbia and Snake Rivers, water managers are thinking of young salmon that need a boost get get downstream through reservoirs to the ocean. To help young fish pass the dams…
PUBLIC LANDS -- It's gratifying to know that I'm not the only one who thinks Idaho would benefit by having a national park. Idaho should have new national park in place for NPS's 100th celebration It's unfortunate the Idaho House couldn't support the Idaho Senate's…
POACHING -- A clueless landowner, who described deer on his property as "rodents," has been charged with shooting and killing more than 30 deer over several years and leaving them to rot on his property near Thorpe, Washington. According to the Daily Record, the man...
FISHING -- A new Spokane River boat access capable of taking out drift boats appears to have gotten the financial nudge it needed, thanks to an evening of fishing films at the Bing Crosby Theater last month. More than 425 people turned out for the...
HIKING – The 49th Annual Buttercup Hike in the Dishman Hills Natural Area is set for Saturday, April 11, starting at 1 p.m. from Camp Caro, 625 S. Sargent Rd. The three-hour educational walking tour will be led by Michael Hamilton, former Dishman Hills Conservancy...
CYCLING -- Thirteen years after a brutal crash when his bike broke in half (see video of crash), Frenchman Eric Barone, 54, broke his own mountain bike downhill speed record on a nearly vertical snow track in Vars, France, according to a report on bike.com.
OUTDOOR PHOTOGRAPHY -- Challenging yourself to make a good outdoor photo is a great motivation to look closer and longer at wildlife, nature and landscapes. The Friends of the Little Pend Oreille National Wildlife Refuge once again are encouraging shutterbugs to pause on the refuge…
HUNTING -- Washington's two-day youth-only wild turkey hunting season opens today, April 4, 2015, and licensed hunters under 16 years of age are rising to the occasion. It's the first of several spring turkey seasons opening this month in the Inland Northwest. Mckayla Gibbons bagged…
PADDLING -- A video of a man's canoe ballet is a peaceful end of the week and a reminder of what a little practice with a paddle can accomplish. The video is from the 2007 Mid-West Freestyle Canoe competition. American Freestyle canoeing is the art…
WILDLIFE ENFORCEMENT -- Robotic white-tailed deer decoys and metal detectors costing more than $5,000 have been donated by the Spokane Valley-based Northwest Sportsman’s Club for use by state wildlife police. The remotely-controlled decoys and highly sensitive metal detectors will be used by officers in the...
PREDATORS -- Gray wolf numbers in Idaho appear to be roughly the same as at the end of 2013 while the number of wolves killed by hunters and trappers is significantly down, according to the state Fish and Game Department's annual 2014 Wolf Monitoring Progress Report released today....
PREDATORS -- Gray wolf numbers in Montana declined 12 percent last year and livestock attacks by the predators took an even sharper drop after four years of regulated hunting and trapping. Montana Fish, Wildlife and Parks said a minimum 554 wolves were counted statewide at...
MULTISPORTS -- Although the region's ski resorts have closed for the season, there's still enough snow at Silver Mountain above Kellogg to start the first leg of a popular multisport down-the-mountain spring event. The 11th annual NASCO LEADMAN Triathlon will be held April 25. The...
MULTISPORTS -- There’s been so little snow in the Cascade Mountains that Bellingham organizers of the annual 94-mile Ski to Sea race have been forced to drop two skiing events. Organizers said Wednesday Whatcom County’s annual spring relay race from Mount Baker to Bellingham Bay...
WILDLIFE WATCHING -- Volunteers building a new trail spur in a portion of Riverside State Park last weekend became acquainted with a critter that tends to stay out of sight. Workers moving rocks on the Knothead Trail above the confluence of the Spokane and Little...
FISHING -- Steelheaders landed a record catch in the Hanford Reach of the Columbia River last month. "During the month of March, anglers landed 764 steelhead and harvested 606 hatchery steelhead in the Hanford Reach sport fishery, just beating out the old record of 750…
OUTDOORS -- The Spokesman-Review Readers Outdoor Photos web page hasn't just been popular -- it's become a regular pit stop for a breath of fresh air. Here are my picks for the Top 25 photos uploaded onto our gallery in March. What do you think?...
PUBLIC LANDS -- Dam and diversion projects or expansions are being proposed on lakes within Washington's Alpine Lakes Wilderness up to satisfy Chelan County water needs and/or desires. The Department of Ecology's Office of the Columbia River is funding and sponsoring proposals to increase water…
PUBLIC LANDS -- In the latest and worst-case scenario of federal government overreach, huckleberry picking will be prohibited on the Idaho Panhandle National Forests in 2015. Although the formal announcement hasn't been made, Priest Lake blogger Pecky Cox spilled the berries today after beating the...
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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