HUNTING – Friday, April 3, is the deadline to apply for one of 25 disabled hunter vehicle access permits to access otherwise gated areas on Inland Empire Paper Company lands. Permits will be distributed in a lottery drawing. Applications are available through the Inland Northwest...
CYCLING --Today is the last day for very fit bicyclists to enter the lottery to become one of the 800 riders allowed to enter the annual RAMROD on July 30. The Ride Around Mount Rainier in One Day, a premiere ultra-marathon cycling event by the…
MARINE MAMMALS -- The endangered population of killer whales that spend time in Washington state waters is experiencing a baby boom with a fourth calf orca documented this winter. The newborn was spotted Monday by whale-watching crews and a naturalist in the waters of British…
BOATING -- With about $69 million in repairs to a cracked spillway completed at Wanapum Dam, water levels on the Columbia River reservoir are being brought up to normal levels and boat ramps are being readied to use for the first time in more than...
Bicyclists can relax until spring before planning most of their 2015 cycling season. But the following popular spring and summer rides come and go before you know it or sell out so quickly you have to be planning and making your application in February...
Rich Landers writes and photographs stories and columns for a wide range of outdoors coverage, including Outdoors feature sections on Sunday and Thursday.