CAMPING -- The award for the most clueless campers in Idaho go to the boobs who left without fully extinguishing their campfires causing wildfires to spring up on the Idaho Panhandle National Forests over the weekend. See the story here. That would be inexcusable even…
FISHING -- Noticing the heavy fly-fishing activity on the Clearwater River recently, Idaho Fish and Game Department fisheries biologist Jaime Robertson is warning anglers about a planned surge of water that could catch anglers -- especially wading anglers -- by surprise. Between 8 a.m. and…
HUNTING -- Answering an appeal filed by eight wildlife-protection groups, Gov. Jay Inslee has struck down increases in cougar hunting quotas approved for this year by the Washington Fish and Wildlife Commission. Inslee said an amendment proposed at the April commission meeting to increase cougar...
deer park 88 hunters, 19 whitetails, 3 mule deer also bobcat and blackbear. chattaroy, 74 hunters with 13 whitetails, 1 moose and waterfowl for both, al four mule deer bucks dp: 10 bucks and 9 does chat 7 bucks, 5 does 1 fwan all 14...
FISHING -- The salmon are getting a little darker and the opening of more hunting seasons is reducing the pressure -- but the fishing success is even better for the record-setting run of chinook into the Hanford Reach of the Columbia. Here's the report for…
CONSERVATION -- The fifth-annual Reforest Spokane effort organized by The Lands Council will channel volunteers to several areas around town for a morning of tree planting on Saturday, Oct. 24. Sites are being selected to provide shade along stream banks to cool water for fish,…
Rich Landers writes and photographs stories and columns for a wide range of outdoors coverage, including Outdoors feature sections on Sunday and Thursday.
