WILDLIFE -- At least 65 elk have been killed this winter on a stretch of Interstate 90 just west of Vantage. It’s by far the worst year in memory for elk collisions in the area, the Yakima Herald reports. And while crash rates have fallen...
FISHING -- Angler skills are in demand to on the South Fork of the Clearwater River, where Idaho Fish and Game officials want young steelhead released into the South Fork of the Clearwater River to be from parents taken from that river. Anglers can help...
WATERFALLS -- Always the light of my life, my favorite youngest daughter brightened my morning with this photo she snapped as daylight waned Wednesday where she works in Yosemite National Park, California. Last night, the sunset hit Horsetail Falls just right so that it look...
FISHING -- Cool weather and brown weather hasn't kept some anglers from checking out their home water this month. Kelli Hornbaker, pictured above, caught and released this feisty rainbow trout casting a Panther Martin lure -- gold blade orange body -- in the Spokane River…
WILDLIFE WATCHING -- Yellowstone National Park has reported its first grizzly bear sighting of 2016. Park officials spotted the male grizzly bear Tuesday near the Nez Perce Creek drainage during a wolf survey flight. Park spokeswoman Amy Bartlett says the timing of this year’s first…
RIVER RUNNING -- Hangman Creek is notorious among rafters and paddlers for being a now-you-see-it, now-you-don't whitewater attraction. Adequate flows for rafting usually come and go quickly in winter or early spring with rain and snowmelt events. Spokane river runner Tanner Grant jumped on the...
Rich Landers writes and photographs stories and columns for a wide range of outdoors coverage, including Outdoors feature sections on Sunday and Thursday.
