THREATENED SPECIES -- U.S. officials plan to make a major announcement Tuesday on efforts to protect an imperiled bird that could have implications for the energy and ranching industries. The Interior Department says in a media advisory that governors of Colorado, Montana, Nevada and Wyoming...
FISHING -- Chalk up another record-setting week for salmon fishing in the Hanford Reach of the Columbia. Here's the report for last week just posted by Paul Hoffarth, Washington Department of Fish and Wildlife biologist in the Tri-Cities: Harvest for the week was estimated at...
TRAILS -- Today's news that a grizzly bear is still hanging around the Coeur d'Alene River near Kingston caught the attention of Erick Swanson. So did the large pile of bear scat Swanson passed while bicycling along the Trail of the Coeur d'Alenes last weekend....
WILDLIFE -- The collared 2-year-old grizzly bear from Montana is still roaming the Coeur d'Alene River area north of Kingston. Idaho Fish and Game has been unsuccessful, as they expected, in getting the bear to take the bait and walk into a culvert trap for...
WILDLIFE CRIMES -- A Georgia man guilty of trafficking deer across state lines for an illegal hunting operation has been ordered to pay $1.6 million in fines and restitution -- the largest sum of money ordered of an individual to pay for a wildlife crime...
HUNTING -- Idaho state officials are debating if they should allow groups to lease public land in a way that could prevent public access. The fact that this debate is even occurring is a slap in the face to the average sportsman who depends on public...
HUNTING -- It pays an angler to check the stomach contents of a fish he catches to better match the presentation for subsequent casts. Similarly, I almost always cut into the crop of game birds and wild turkeys I shoot to gain understanding of what...
FISHING -- The Upper Skagit Indian Tribe closed its pink salmon fishery last week because the run so far has been poor. Here's more from the Associated Press: The tribe in northwest Washington expected to see about 500,000 pinks return to the Skagit River to…
PUBLIC LANDS -- Zip lines, golf courses, tea houses in some the world's greatest national parks -- oh, my! Group forms to fight further commercialization of Canada's national parks A new coalition of First Nations, conservation groups, residents of Banff and former Parks Canada employees...
Rich Landers writes and photographs stories and columns for a wide range of outdoors coverage, including Outdoors feature sections on Sunday and Thursday.