RIVERS -- A new visitor center at Wanapum Dam on the Columbia River near Vantage will be open starting Tuesday. The Grant Public Utilities District says it has prepared new displays to highlight how the dam balances hydropower, fish passage, recreation and natural resource management....
PUBLIC LANDS -- Even though I'm a paddler, I can see good reasons to maintain restrictions on floating access to some of the fragile streams in Yellowstone National Park. This is an issue better managed conservatively by scientists and rangers in the park rather than…
BIRDS -- Wisdom -- a 64-year-old Laysan albatross known worldwide -- returned to Midway Atoll National Wildlife Refuge on Nov. 19 after a year at sea. A few days later, she was observed with her mate on the low island that's speck on the map...
WILDLIFE WATCHING -- Cold weather is magic for bird watching. Naturalist Terry Gray of Moscow devoted three hours to walking through the University of Idaho Arboretum and Botanical Garden on a recent brisk morning and reported observing 22 bird species. He also captured photographs of...
WILDLIFE WATCHING -- Most of the deer hunting seasons are over, but the whitetail breeding season is still underway. This buck photographed by Montana outdoor photographer Jaime Johnson seems to have his priorities in order. Good luck out there.
Rich Landers writes and photographs stories and columns for a wide range of outdoors coverage, including Outdoors feature sections on Sunday and Thursday.
