WINTER TRAVEL -- The lifts are closed for the season, but snowshoers and backcountry skiers are finding good reasons to hit the slopes at Mount Spokane. State Park manager Steve Christensen took time yesterday to snowshoe to the mountain summit over a couple inches of…
STEWARDSHIP -- About 40 volunteers chipped in Saturday to remove trash from the shoreline along Sand Creek in downtown Sandpoint during the annual Sand Creek Clean Up. The helpers were organized by the Downtown Sandpoint Business Association and Lake Pend Oreille Waterkeeper. The event removed…
FISHING -- The Washington Department of Fish and Wildlife and the Kalispel Tribe of Indians Natural Resources Department will hold the second of two area public meetings tonight to discuss non-native northern pike in Pend Oreille River and other Eastern Washington waters, and take public…
WILDLIFE WATCHING -- While millions of people a day are tuning in on a web cam featuring a growing bald eagle family in Iowa, the Washington Fish and Wildlife Department's website allows viewers to click on any of 10 WildWatch Cams set up to view…
WILDLIFE -- The first wild horse born on Montana's Wildhorse Island in more than a century stands next to her mother last week in the photo above. The unexpected birth pushes the population past the maximum called for in the management plan for the state…
HUNTING/FISHNG -- Bend, Ore., is tops and Lewiston, Idaho is sixth in Outdoor Life magazine's just-released list of the “Top 200 Towns for Sportsmen” for 2011. Lewiston dropped from No. 1 in the rankings in 2009 and No. 4 last year despite great runs of…
TOURNAMENT FISHING -- The Cascade Musky Association has scheduled its third annual 2-Fer tiger musky tournament at Silver and Newman lakes for May 21-22. The open tournament starts at Silver Lake and concludes the next day at Newman. The $20 per angler entry fee includes…
Rich Landers writes and photographs stories and columns for a wide range of outdoors coverage, including Outdoors feature sections on Sunday and Thursday.
