NATURAL RESOURCES -- In the past few days, the world has seen goof-ball tourists in Yellowstone National Park ignoring common sense and breaking laws by petting bison, putting a calf bison in their SUV and walking as a group across a fragile and dangerous thermal…
BOATING -- An on-the-ball Idaho law enforcement officer and a southern Idaho invasive species watercraft inspection station may have saved Washington future grief with invasive mussels. Two points to highlight in this blurb from S-R Boise blogger Betsy Russell: Despite all the publicity about the…
HIKING -- Mount St. Helens hikers unprepared for changing weather conditions last weekend lucked out in one way -- a group of rangers was on the mountain to save them a lot of grief. Law enforcement and search and rescue personnel helped track down multiple…
HUNTING -- Here's a long story from the Yakima Herald-Republic with a message about hunter ethics, especially if you're tempted into a pasture to shoot a bull elk the locals have known fondly for years as "Bullwinkle." By Scott Sandsberry ELLENSBURG, Wash. – Bullwinkle was...
CYCLING -- SpokeFest is teaming up with Mountain Gear to give away 120 Strider bikes to get area kids balanced and riding. SpokeFest, scheduled for Sept. 11, 2016, is one of the Spokane area's most poplar bicycling events. Strider balance bikes are propelled by the...
WATERSPORTS – The Spokane Sail and Power Squadron will teach the ABC-3 boating safety course next weekend in two four-hour sessions at the Cabela’s store in Post Falls. The eight-hour class satisfies Washington’s mandatory boating safety requirement. Class sessions will be 5 p.m.-9 p.m. on...
Rich Landers writes and photographs stories and columns for a wide range of outdoors coverage, including Outdoors feature sections on Sunday and Thursday.
