WINTERSPORTS -- It was an autumn winter wonderland at Mount Spokane State Park on Monday. Nora Searing and Cris Currie enjoyed their first ski tour of the season by breaking trail in decent snow conditions to the Nova Hut and beyond. More to come! Sno-Park...
ENDANGERED SPECIES -- Another gray wolf has been found dead in Oregon, marking the third such unsolved death of a federally protected wolf in the past year, state and federal wildlife officials told the Associated Press. Another wolf was shot by a hunter who claimed…
FISHERIES -- The Memory of Fish, a film about the effort leading to dam removal and restoration of Washington's Elwha River, will be screened at 6 p.m. on Thursday, Nov. 9, at the Magic Lantern Theatre in Spokane. American Rivers and award-winning filmmaker Jennifer Galvin...
HUNTING -- Perhaps the potential for repelling a grizzly attack with a can of bear spray hadn't been fully explored, until this.... An elk hunter near Livingston, Montana, was able to deploy bear spray at a charging bear, but the nozzle of the spray got...
HUNTING -- While bird hunting along Montana's Rocky Mountain Front, a sportsman must consider being loaded for bear as well as pheasant. On Saturday near Pendroy, a pheasant hunter shot and killed a grizzly bear that charged him after it was surprised by the hunter’s...
Rich Landers writes and photographs stories and columns for a wide range of outdoors coverage, including Outdoors feature sections on Sunday and Thursday.