WINTERSPORTS -- The snow-cat groomer will be setting tracks tonight for the first time this season on the cross-country ski trails at Mount Spokane State Park. "We just finished our second go-round of clearing trees off the trails from the second wind storm," Steve Christensen,...
OUTDOOR PHOTOGRAPHY -- A photo by Spokane pastor/photographer Craig Goodwin has been named the Reader Photo of the Year -- by the Seattle Times. Goodwin, 46, has treated readers of The Spokesman-Review with stunning images ranging from underwater kokanee spawning action to the Milky Way...
ENDANGERED SPECIES -- From the "What didn't happen in Washington, D.C.," file: Wolf rider doesn't make it into federal spending bill A measure that would have removed federal protection for wolves in Minnesota, Wisconsin, Michigan and Wyoming, and return management of the species to those...
Rich Landers writes and photographs stories and columns for a wide range of outdoors coverage, including Outdoors feature sections on Sunday and Thursday.