MARINE MAMMALS -- The joke, er, the effort to scare the burgeoning legions of sea lions away from Astoria docks and facilities by employing a fake orca has bombed. See yesterday's story But the story goes beyond the discovery that the fake orca could not…
PARKS -- The Friends of Spokane House re-enactors will present a weekend of local fur trade history from the years 1810 through1826 at the 2015 Fur Trade Symposium and Encampment June 13-14 in Riverside State Park. The free event takes place 10 a.m.-5 p.m. on…
FISHING -- It's no wonder some salmon don't bite in certain stretches of the Columbia River: They don't have time. Some adult spring and summer chinook detected at Bonneville Dam were detected at The Dalles Dam the very next day, a distance of 74 miles!...
PUBLIC LANDS -- Washington Sen. Patty Murray and Rep. Derek Kilmer have introduced the Wild Olympics Wilderness and Wild and Scenic Rivers Act of 2015 in Congress. The act introduced Thursday is designed to protect environmentally sensitive parts of the Olympic Peninsula. Murray and Kilmer…
TRAILS -- Two popular Seattle-area trails have been designated as national recreation trails. The Mount Si and Snoqualmie River trails were among 10 trails across the country cited Thursday by U.S. Secretary of the Interior Sally Jewell and National Park Service Director Jonathan B. Jarvis…
WILDLIFE -- Montana wildlife officials gave a good, practical explanation of why they killed a moose calf orphaned after it's mother died delivering its stillborn twin. But the man who found the cute survivor apparently wanted a miracle and a lot of money thrown down…
TRAILS -- The region's next great shared-use trail could be a 25 miler along the Pend Oreille River in Idaho from Oldtown near the Washington stateline east to Dover at Lake Pend Oreille. Trail planning by local citizens plus area, state and federal agencies has…
Rich Landers writes and photographs stories and columns for a wide range of outdoors coverage, including Outdoors feature sections on Sunday and Thursday.
