HUNTING -- Washington and Idaho hunters can be lulled to sleep by the lack of news about a significant big-game disease that's faded from the region's headlines in recent years. But not too far away... Chronic Wasting Disease is killing about 19 percent of a...
WINTER TRAVEL -- Winter travel into Yellowstone National Park opened today thanks to recent snow storms that have layered enough snow on roads to unleash the snow coaches. Winter transportation gives outdoors lovers access to cross-country skiing, snowshoeing and wildlife watching in areas such as…
FISHING -- Montana is trying to fight back against "bucket biologists" who've been raising havoc with fisheries for years. Most recently, Montana has order anglers to turn in walleye caught in Swan Lake and River, according to the Flathead Beacon. After discovering illegally introduced walleye...
WILDLIFE -- Washington's late fall turkey hunting season ends today, much to the disappointment of some landowners who will be bearing the brunt of huge numbers of wild turkeys this winter. I took my third 2015 tag over the weekend and tried to put it...
HUNTING -- Comments on proposed changes to Idaho's 2016 and 2017 upland game, turkey, furbearer, and falconry seasons are being sought through Dec. 28. Comments on proposals statewide can be made online. In the Idaho Panhandle Region, staff will be available to take comments at...
FISHING -- Nearly 50 new sportfishing rules, including a requirement that anglers release all wild steelhead they catch on several streams on the Olympic Peninsula, were adopted by the Washington Fish and Wildlife Commission during its Dec. 11-12 in Port Townsend. Most of the proposals...
Rich Landers writes and photographs stories and columns for a wide range of outdoors coverage, including Outdoors feature sections on Sunday and Thursday.
