WINTERSPORTS -- A popular snowmobile warming hut in the Coeur d'Alene River area has burned down for the second time in four years and the Kootenai County Sheriff's Office is asking the public to help with the case. The Skitwish Warming Hut has burned down...
WINTERSPORTS -- Snow is accumulating in the region, prompting Silver Mountain Resort at Kellogg, Idaho, to announce that it will open for snow tubing and scenic gondola rides on Friday, Saturday and Sunday. Gondola hours will be 10 a.m. - 3 p.m. Snow tubing sessions...
WINTERSPORTS -- A popular snowmobile warming hut in the Coeur d'Alene River area reportedly has burned down for the second time in four years. Although there's been no official report yet by the Idaho Pandhandle National Forests, Kootenai County snowmobilers are buzzing with the news...
INVASIVE SPECIES -- An aquatic invasive species may have moved into the Missouri River, according to preliminary testing in Montana. The Daily Inter Lake reports that additional lab work is needed to confirm the detection, but preliminary results from a water sample taken south of…
TRAPPING -- Trapping wolves is tricky business, especially when a black bear is captured by the steel jaws of a leg-hold trap. Bears are required to be released. Here's a bit of the drama involved with tranquilizing and releasing a big bruin, as told by...
FISHING -- Four area trout fishing lakes open Friday for a winter season that runs through March. Prospects are good at Fourth of July and Hog Canyon lakes west of Spokane. But anglers can expect varied success at the two lakes that open in Stevens…
WILDLIFE WATCHING -- Snowshoe hares have camouflage that adapts to the seasons, from brownish gray half of the year to white for the winter months. This works out great -- except for those awkward periods when the season changes don't cooperate. This hare photographed by...
Rich Landers writes and photographs stories and columns for a wide range of outdoors coverage, including Outdoors feature sections on Sunday and Thursday.
