OUTDOOR FILMS -- The World Tour of outdoors flicks -- exciting to poignant -- from the 2015 Banff Mountain Film Festival will make a stop at the Bing Crosby Theater in Spokane on Nov. 20-22. A different selection of climbing, skiing, biking, cultural and aerial...
WILDFIRES -- As fall rains help extinguish the last of the Tower Fire across the Washington-Idaho border between the Pend Oreille and Priest River drainages, the Forest Service is lifting area closures but keeping road and trail closures in place. Keeping roads and trail closed...
TRAPPING -- A lawsuit that could restrict trapping across much of Idaho is being heard in a Boise court today. Arguments are being presented involving inadvertent trapping of federally protected Canada lynx. The Center for Biological Diversity and three other groups say Idaho is violating…
OUTDOOR RETAILERS -- Recreational Equipment, Inc., has announced that its 143 retail stores will be closed on Nov. 27, a.k.a.Black Friday, one of the nation's biggest retail money making days of the year. Instead, REI is telling its employees and customers to take the day...
LANDSCAPES -- Three previously unlabeled geographic features, including a notch on Mount Rainier, were named recently by the Washington State Committee on Geographical Names. At its regular semi-annual meeting Friday, the panel voted to sent three selections to the Board of Natural Resources for a…
HUNTING -- Considering that fewer than 15 percent of hunters fill their elk tags each year, I've always noted that hunters are the ultimate nature watchers considering all the time they put in sitting, looking, listening and appreciating their surroundings. Brett French, outdoor writer for...
Rich Landers writes and photographs stories and columns for a wide range of outdoors coverage, including Outdoors feature sections on Sunday and Thursday.