Webcam chat at Ustream WILDLIFE -- Less than two weeks old, three eaglets are starting to get big enough in their nest that the parents have a hard time settling down for a restful night. Stay tuned along with about 4 million viewers EACH DAY…
SALMON FISHING -- Three sections of the Snake River will open to fishing for spring chinook salmon starting April 20 with the stretch below Ice Harbor Dam, according to an announcement just released by the Washington Department of Fish and Wildlife Idaho's spring chinook season…
SALTWATER FISHING -- Coastal salmon fishing season have just been negotiated and released by the Washington Department of Fish and Wildlife and treaty Indian co-managers at the Pacific Fishery Management Council’s meeting in San Mateo, Calif. Read on for details of the fishing package, which…
TRAILS -- The commission that governs the Trail of the Coeur d’Alenes -- which stretches 72 miles from Mullan to Plummer --is having a meeting Thursday, and the public is invited. The meeting will start at 9 a.m. at the Heyburn State Park Visitor Center…
WILDERNESS -- A fledgling plan to make millions of acres of undeveloped land in the West eligible for federal wilderness protection was one of the casualties of Friday's last-minute budget deal reached by Congressional leaders to keep the government afloat. Republican lawmakers had complained that…
RIVERS — River running outfitters training workers for the approaching season on the popular Salmon River in central Idaho have asked the state for permission to practice on other rivers due to a massive logjam, according to an Associated Press report this morning. Grant Simonds…
QUOTABLE: "We're not interested in grizzly bears occupying new habitat except in areas where they already are. Socially acceptable habitat would be areas where grizzlies already occupy. We're not interested in expansion. We're maxed out on grizzly bears already.”" Brian Nesvik of the Wyoming Game…
OLYMPIA -- Even these tough times, we should be able to get bipartisan support in Olympia for this well-thought out proposal.
ENDANGERED SPECIES -- A measure taking gray wolves off federal Endangered Species Act protection made it into the must-pass U.S. Senate budget bill, as explained in a Missoulian story. Montana Sens. Jon Tester and Max Baucus, both Democrats, placed a rider in the 2011 Appropriations…
CONSERVATION -- The U.S. Forest Service is working on a land exchange with Stimson Lumber Co. to protect wildlife habitat near Hope, Idaho. The deal is expected to close this summer. The Idaho Panhandle National Forests will trade 995 acres for 922 acres of Stimson…
MARINE MAMMALS -- In May, Department of Fish and Wildlife Officers will be back on the water enforcing the laws that protect Puget Sound Orcas. “There’s an incentive to get close to those whales and give your client that photo of a lifetime,” said the…
Rich Landers writes and photographs stories and columns for a wide range of outdoors coverage, including Outdoors feature sections on Sunday and Thursday.
