HABITAT -- Workers in the major project to shore up island erosion and restore wildlife habitat in Idaho's Clark Fork Delta are doing a little unexpected weeding. Illegal marijuana growing plots have been discovered two consecutive years, the Idaho Fish and Game Department reports. Several...
RIVERS -- Local staff at the National Weather Services has compiled sobering data from the USGS WaterWatch on the amount of water trickling out of our mountains and into our iconic creeks and rivers. Early melt off of our of below average snowpack in the...
PUBLIC LANDS -- The Wilderness Act is colliding with federal mining laws in a famed protected roadless area in Central Idaho -- and the mining laws rule. Payette National Forest Supervisor Keith Lannom has decided to allow miners to bring dump trucks and bulldozers into…
BOATING -- The level of Lake Roosevelt was at 1280 Tuesday and is likely to rise to the 1284-1286 range on July 3 as it continues to gradually fill, the U.S. Bureau of Reclamation says. That could keep extended-holiday boaters and campers on their toes, especially if...
Rich Landers writes and photographs stories and columns for a wide range of outdoors coverage, including Outdoors feature sections on Sunday and Thursday.
