WATERSPORTS – The Little Spokane River shuttle service for paddlers will resume this summer with an expanded season that starts on Saturday July 4 and runs Saturdays, 10 a.m.-4 p.m., through Sept. 5. The shuttle is operated by Spokane Parks and Recreation Department to reunite...
PUBLIC LANDS -- Hot, dry weather has forced land managers to impose restrictions on camping, burning and access throughout the Northwest, as we rounded up in a story in Thursday Outdoors. Since then, more restrictions have come up, including: Weyerhaeuser closing its timberlands in Western…
PARKS -- Somebody could make a fortune on stir-fry bison this summer. Yellowstone Park gears up for 500,000 visitors from China Last year more than 300,000 people from China visited Yellowstone National Park and surrounding communities. Based on visa applications, that number could increase to…
Rich Landers writes and photographs stories and columns for a wide range of outdoors coverage, including Outdoors feature sections on Sunday and Thursday.
