WINTERSPORTS -- Snowmobiler who want to ride in Yellowstone National Park next winter without a guide can enter a lottery starting Friday for a limited number of permits. The park requires all non-commercially guided snowmobile groups that enter the park to have a permit. Sledders...
HUNTING -- The 2017 mourning dove hunting seasons open in Idaho and Eastern Washington on Friday, but hunters can warm up on a similar bird with the blessings of wildlife biologists. The Eurasian collared-dove is a fast-spreading exotic species that's unprotected in Washington and Idaho...
PUBLIC LANDS -- The Emerald Creek Garnet Area on the Idaho Panhandle National Forests near Clarkia won't be open for the Labor Day holiday weekend. The gem-gathering site will close for the season today, five days ahead of the scheduled Sept. 4 closure date, forest...
FISHING -- Anglers who catch chinook salmon on the upper Columbia River with a hole punched in the tail fin must release them, according to the Washington Department of Fish and Wildlife. The fish, which include wild and hatchery fall chinook, have been sedated with…
Rich Landers writes and photographs stories and columns for a wide range of outdoors coverage, including Outdoors feature sections on Sunday and Thursday.