PARKS -- Yellowstone National Park officials began closing some of its entrances this week and nearly all interior roads to prepare the park for the more vehicle-restrictive winter season. The closures of the west, south and east entrances started Monday. The winter season of snowmobile…
HUNTING -- A bull elk is usually safe to be around once it's dead. But an Oregon hunter found out otherwise last weekend. A hunter from Bend was impaled in the back by the antler of an elk as he was dragging it back to...
HUNTING -- Some people hate wolves because they kill big game. How then do we react to high school students who get a thrill out of poaching? KALISPELL, Mont. (AP) – The final person involved in a Flathead Valley poaching case has been sentenced for…
Rich Landers writes and photographs stories and columns for a wide range of outdoors coverage, including Outdoors feature sections on Sunday and Thursday.