BIRDING -- A $5,000 citation has been issued to a tribal member for the January killing a northern hawk owl that had been attracting scores of birders to a corner of the Colville Indian Reservation. “I am pleased that our office was able to conclude…
PUBLIC LANDS -- Some Idaho lawmakers are bent on joining Utah in devoting more time and money to taking control over federal public lands through the front door or back door. Idaho bill gives counties ability to declare federal, state lands a 'nuisance'Using legislation in...
FISHING -- Yesterday at this time, with ice still on puddles in the shade of the sage, a hatch of midges and mayflies briefly occurred on Rocky Ford Creek north of Moses Lake. Most of the anglers I saw were rigged up with nymph or...
FISHING -- Despite drought conditions in 2015, fall chinook returning to the Snake River set a record for spawning beds for the third straight year, according to new data released by the Nez Perce Tribe The data shows a record 9,345 redds, or gravel nests,…
PREDATORS -- Although Idaho continues to exceed all gray wolf recovery goals, some environmental groups still drum up national outrage when wolves are killed for management plans aimed at maintaining stable big-game populations. It's a strange dynamic. A viable elk herd is a good thing…
WILDLIFE WATCHING -- The 2001 documentary Winged Migration, drew public attention to birds in a new way by attaching cameras to big birds in flight and filming them as if we were soaring right alongside the flock. The Messenger does for songbirds what Winged Migration...
Rich Landers writes and photographs stories and columns for a wide range of outdoors coverage, including Outdoors feature sections on Sunday and Thursday.
