FISHING -- A 19.02-pound rainbow measuring 32.5 inches long and entered in the Adult Rainbow Division by Don Hale is the winning fish caught in the 2016 Lake Pend Oreille Fall Fishing Derby, according to unofficial results released today. The fish barely topped the 19-pound,…
WILDIFE WATCHING -- The number of bald eagles arriving for the annual congregation at Lake Coeur d'Alene has more than doubled in a week. The big birds are homing in on the feast of spawning kokanee -- the biggest fish run in 20 years...
HUNTING -- Justin Souza says he didn’t even know the big beast was there – that is, not until he saw a cloud of warm breath rising from a seemingly anonymous mound of earth. The story by Hunter D'Antuono of The Livingston Enterprise tells of…
TRAILS – A woman with a muscle degenerative disease wants to be allowed to take her electric bicycle onto mountain bike trails. The U.S. Forest Service restricts Bella Berlly’s motorized bicycle to routes for off-highway vehicles such as Jeeps, the Columbian reports. The routes in…
WINTERSPORTS -- The winter backcountry season is kicking into gear near Sherman Pass, and visitors who've planned ahead and secured reservations to ski or snowshoe into the Snow Peak Cabin will find, as one backcountry enthusiast called it, "a vastly improved outhouse." Snow Peak Cabin...
STREAMS -- Hangman Creek used to produce 1,000 fish a day for Nez Perce Indians during the salmon spawning runs. Nowadays, the stream that merges with the Spokane River near downtown Spokane is a shadow of its former grandeur and hospitality to fish. Even if...
CONSERVATION – The Backcountry Hunters & Anglers are the latest sportsmen’s group to take advantage of a Montana license plate program that benefits nonprofit groups. “There’s quite a few plates with different designs to represent elk, deer and trout groups, so we jumped in late…
Rich Landers writes and photographs stories and columns for a wide range of outdoors coverage, including Outdoors feature sections on Sunday and Thursday.
