THREATENED SPECIES -- The U.S. government was wrong to exclude large areas of the Rocky Mountains when it designated almost 40,000 square miles of habitat as critical to the survival of imperiled Canada lynx, a federal judge ruled Wednesday. U.S. District Judge Dana Christensen in...
HIKING ETIQUETTE -- Ammi Midstokke, in her S-R Outdoors column this week, takes on the tough-love conversation of how to poop in the woods and keep our favorite camping areas tidy and sanitary. I'm going to take that a step further with a recommendation for...
FISHING -- Starting today, anglers can catch and keep all the fish they want out of two Grant County trout management lakes scheduled for rehabilitation this fall. The Washington Department of Fish and Wildlife has removed daily limits and size limits for all species and…
RIVERS -- If you're wondering why some people are concerned when the Spokane River sometimes is reduced to little more than a trickle in late August, these photos taken Saturday at Barker Road "rapids" offers a clue. "You could easily rock hop across and never...
HUNTING -- Forest grouse hunting seasons opened last week and I'm sure there are some funny-to-weird stories to tell of things that went right or wrong. But this true story from a Wenatchee couple -- names withheld by request -- is hard to...
PREDATORS -- Courses required for obtaining a wolf trapping license in Idaho are scheduled in North Idaho in September and October. The Idaho Department of Fish and Game will sponsor wolf trapper certification courses from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. as follows: Lewiston: Sept. 10...
FISHING -- After weeks of shutdown because of a fish-killing parasite, Montana Fish, Wildlife and Parks reopened the upper stretch of the Yellowstone River and its tributaries to fishing today – from the border of Yellowstone National Park to the Carbella Fishing Access Site. "Recent…
FISHING -- It's time to start getting serious about catching Columbia River kings between McNary and Priest Rapids dams. Here's todays report from Paul Hoffarth, Washington Department of Fish and Wildlife fisheries biologist in the Tri Cities. Fall chinook harvest in the Hanford Reach area…
FISHING -- A photo of an osprey draped with fishing line illustrates the responsibility anglers have to take care of their tackle. The photo was snapped after the osprey dove for kokanee at Hayden Lake. Being tangled in fishing line can be a death sentence…
HUNTING -- A free youth pheasant hunt preceded by a trapshooting tuneup is being offered for hunters age 15 or younger by the Blue Mountain Chapter of Pheasants Forever. The trapshooting is set for Sept.11 at the Waitsburg Gun Club. The hunting will coincide with…
TRAILS – Volunteers are needed for repairing the Boulder Meadows trail near Bonners Ferry in a work part set for Sept. 9. “We will be digging water drainage ditches, installing water bars, and replacing soil that has been washed off the trail,” said Tom Dabrowski…
PUBLIC LANDS -- The Little Snowy Top fire lookout in the Salmo-Priest Wilderness has burned to the ground, according to an Idaho dispatch report today. The fire sounds suspicious since no land was...
ENDANGERED SPECIES -- The number of wolves killed from the cattle-attacking Profanity Peak wolf pack in Ferry County has not changed since last week, but Washington Fish and Wildlife Department officials have increased the number of confirmed cattle kills by two. "Since July 8, the...
PREDATORS – The killing of cormorants on the Columbia River to protect steelhead and salmon can continue despite a federal judge’s ruling that the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers should have considered other alternatives before taking that action, according to the Associated Press. Federal agencies...
THREATENED SPECIES -- Federal land managers issued guidelines Thursday for restricting energy development, livestock grazing and other activities on public land in the West to protect the greater sage grouse, part of a broad effort to save the bird without resorting to listing it as…
HUNTING-FISHING -- The company that operates Idaho Fish and Game Department’s online hunting and fishing license sales says it will send notices by mail to license holders whose personal information might have been compromised by a recent breach of the on-line system. Fish and Game...
WATERSPORTS -- Restrictions were lifted today on two sections of the Yellowstone River as environmental conditions have improved since the state of Montana closed 183 miles of the river and tributaries on Aug. 19. Fishing is still closed on some portions of the restricted area...
TRAILS -- Images from Google Trekker's fall visit to Spokane are showing up online to give people around the world 360-degree views of some special local places. Volunteers carried the 40-some-pound backpack and towering Google Trekker camera in places such as Riverside State Park -…
WATERSPORTS -- The annual drawdown of Lake Coeur d’Alene to winter pool levels will beg on Tuesday, Sept. 6. Avista will increase flows out of Post Falls Dam to gradually lower the lake about a foot from full pool by the end of September, the...
WILDLIFE MANAGEMENT -- Death threats have been reported surrounding the Washington Fish and Wildlife Department's decision to eliminate the cattle-killing Profanity Peak wolf pack in Ferry County, according to the Seattle Times. The threats have been received by people on both sides of the emotional...
FISHING -- Fishing for sockeye salmon will close Monday after sunset, the Washington Fish and Wildlife Department has announced. Here's the rest of the info the agency posted about the Chelan County fishery. Reason for action: The majority of adult sockeye salmon currently in Lake…
WILDLIFE -- Show offs? Selfish wildlife watchers? Or just stupid? What are we? Visitors from Washington state gave the Associated Press plenty of perspective on the growing problems Yellowstone National Park officials are having with the public's insensitivity to wildlife. A story published in The...
PUBLIC LANDS – Jason Reed, 22, of Boise pleaded guilty Tuesday in United States Magistrate Court to destruction of the government-owned Trapper Cabin at the French Creek Trailhead on...
FISHING -- Salmon action has been slow in the Columbia River upstream from McNary Dam, but it's early in the run, as the chart above indicates. Here's a report about what you haven't been missing recently from Paul Hoffarth, Washington Department of Fish and Wildlife…
FISHING – Structural changes at two Snake River dams in Washington are helping more endangered sockeye salmon make the trip upstream to central Idaho this year, federal officials say. Here are details from the Associated Press: The permanent system at Lower Granite Dam and a...
Rich Landers writes and photographs stories and columns for a wide range of outdoors coverage, including Outdoors feature sections on Sunday and Thursday.
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