FISHING -- Coho salmon took a big leap toward restoration in the Grande Ronde River basin on Thursday as the Nez Perce Tribe, coordinating with Oregon Fish and Wildlife, released 500,000 coho smolts into the Lostine River. A ceremony was held to honor the salmon...
TRAILS -- In recent years, lowland hiking trails have been free of snow and welcoming the feet of hikers and runners by March. This year, crusty snow is still greeting recreationists anxious to get off skis and snowshoes and onto terra firma. Despite rain and...
FISHING -- After sunset today, fishing for whitefish will close on the Entiat, Methow, Chewuch and parts of the Similkameen rivers, the Washington Fish and Wildlife Department says. Allowable impacts to steelhead listed under the federal Endangered Species Act have been reached in upper Columbia…
WILDLIFE WATCHING – The public won't be able to view the making of a peregrine falcon family in Boise this year. The live streaming video of the birds of prey in a downtown office building has been canceled for the same reason that shows disappear...
Rich Landers writes and photographs stories and columns for a wide range of outdoors coverage, including Outdoors feature sections on Sunday and Thursday.