HIKING -- Summer "snow drifts" of blooming beargrass are luring hikers to trails at Mount Spokane State Park this week. Named by members of the Lewis and Clark Expedition, beargrass isn't a grass. It's a plant that can have numerous basal rosettes on a common...
FISHING -- The sockeye fishing season in the upper Columbia was closed today to assure enough fish in this year's weak run return to Canada spawning areas, the Washington Department of Fish and Wildlife announced. Fishing for summer chinook salmon remains open as specified in…
Rich Landers writes and photographs stories and columns for a wide range of outdoors coverage, including Outdoors feature sections on Sunday and Thursday.
