TRAILS -- About 100 volunteers turned out Sunday to brave the heat and dust as they put their muscle into upgrading Trail 100 in Riveside State Park, said Carol Christensen, Outreach coordinator for REI Spokane. Partner organizations included Washington Trails Association, Backcountry Horsemen, Spokane Mountaineers,...
OUTDOOR CHARITIES -- Motorcyclists are organizing a charity ride on Saturday, June 20, out of Spokane to support Youth Outdoors Unlimited, a Washington-based non-profit that provides guided hunting or fishing adventures to youth with a life-threatening illness or physical disability. The poker run, based out...
HUNTING -- Montana officials want to use an aggressive public hunting campaign to kill off a diseased herd of 30-40 bighorn sheep in the Tendoy Mountains southeast of Dillon. State wildlife commissioners on Thursday gave preliminary approval to a plan to remove the Tendoy herd…
CLIMBING -- The father of a missing climber apparently found dead on Mount Rainier says his son had a passion for climbing and the outdoors, the Associated Press reports. Searchers Saturday recovered a body believed to be that of 25-year-old Kyle Bufis, formerly of Maple…
WILDLIFE — U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service staffers are working to draw conclusions from about 3,000 comments accumulated this year on a plan to restore grizzly bears to the North Cascades. The Seattle Times reports that after public meetings in six cities an environmental-impact statement…
HUNTING -- Western Washington Hunter Education Instructor Steve Mills has been named the 2014 International Hunter Education Association Volunteer Instructor of the Year. Mills, of Toledo, Wash., was named this year’s recipient of the award at the 2015 IHEA-USA Annual Conference in Des Moines, Iowa.…
FISHING -- For the fourth year, hatchery crews will be stocking 10,000 large rainbow trout in 20 lakes just before Father’s Day weekend, June 20 and 21, the the Washington Department of Fish and Wildlife says. Two of the lakes are near Spokane. All of…
FISHING – An 18.49-pound tiger trout caught May 5 from Bonaparte Lake near Tonasket is a pending state record. Kelly Flaherty, 53, of Priest River hooked the lunker 10 feet from shore on what he said was going to be the last cast of a...
Rich Landers writes and photographs stories and columns for a wide range of outdoors coverage, including Outdoors feature sections on Sunday and Thursday.
