Outdoors

TRAILS -- The Spokane City Council tonight voted 7-0 in favor of a resolution supporting maintaining the integrity of the 253-mile John Wayne Trail along the abandoned railway across Eastern Washington. The vote stems from a legislative attempt to privatize the state-owned rail trail and...

Over the past two decades, Spokane County taxes have paid for the preservation of more than 7,600 acres of wildlands that faced private development. Park planners say acquisition of lands under the Conservation Futures program is just the first step in preservation, and have big ideas for its future.

WILDLIFE -- It's not a perfect ending, but at least it's a happy one to the unsettling story -- Orphaned cougar kittens have sobering tale -- reported in Sunday Outdoors. The two emaciated cougar kittens were reported along the highway near the Grande Ronde...

Jail bait: Pro-wolf activist chains self to Idaho governor's office door

WILDLIFE -- Everyone who appreciates wildlife can appreciate attempts to protect endangered species from poaching, even critters halfway around the world from where we live. But that doesn't mean we have to vote for a law that will do nothing more than be a pain...

5th-graders rule on ski, snowboard slopes with freebie deal

Orphaned cougar kittens have sobering tale

Fall chinook fishing limits liberalized in upper Columbia

WILDLIFE WATCHING -- The black bear that Washington Fish and Wildlife officers are currently attempting to catch in North Spokane is another indicator that the 2015 drought has left some wildlife short on food. The bear is in a neighborhood near Nevada and Lyons. Officers...

PUBLIC LANDS -- Wildfires that stormed through the Colville Indian Reservation toward Republic this summer leaped through some prized Forest Service campgrounds and Long Lake, a fly-fishing only trout fishery. But not all was lost. "The campgrounds at Swan, Long and Ferry all received low...

There’s no such thing as equal opportunity for orphaned wildlife such as bear cubs and cougar kittens. Most perish quickly in the wild while others are found, putting humans in charge of deciding the fate of the world’s cutest creatures.

Hey Gov. Inslee: Where's my medal for saving dog from well?

Wolf shot in Blue Mountains; wolves injure calf in Stevens County

FISHING -- The 2015 fall chinook run of the Columbia River is on a pace to possibly top 2013 as the biggest stampede of upstream adult chinooks since fish counts began at the newly built Bonneville Dam in 1939. If you're not one of the...

Trail helpers needed Sunday at Mount Spokane