FISHING -- Fish from the ocean are arriving daily to Idaho via the Columbia and Snake rivers and anglers are out to greet them. Harvest season for steelhead opened today in the Snake, Salmon and Lower Clearwater rivers. Harvest for fall chinook opened in the…
HUNTING -- The Idaho bowhunter who fended off a grizzly attack Monday with shots from a handgun says the bear came from a side that made it impossible to deploy his bear spray, but he could reach his pistol with the other hand. The gun…
POACHING -- Somebody used a vehicle to run down four pronghorns in an agricultural field west of Mud Lake, bordering the Idaho National Laboratory (INL), south of State Highway 33 just after midnight on Aug. 27. Three does and a fawn were killed. An agricultural…
FISHING -- The fall chinook fishery in the Hanford Reach is starting to pick up, says Paul Hoffarth, Washington Fish and Wildlife biologist in the Tri-Cities. "This past week several nice bright chinook were harvested at Vernita, White Bluffs, Ringold, and in the Tri-Cities," he…
HUNTING -- Idaho Fish and Game is extending the deadline to exchange tags for some early elk hunts that are about to start, or have already started, in the Panhandle, Clearwater and McCall areas that have large land closures because of wildfires. Fish and Game…
HUNTING -- Private landowners who allow hunters by permit onto 22,000 acres near Coeur d'Alene have closed the area temporarily to public access. Here's the info from Idaho Fish and Game: Since 2011, the Mica Bay Land Company and the Godde Family have been very…
Rich Landers writes and photographs stories and columns for a wide range of outdoors coverage, including Outdoors feature sections on Sunday and Thursday.