NATIONAL PARKS -- A storm dumping 9 inches of snow on Oregon's western mountains Tuesday brought the total snowfall at Crater Lake National Park to 615 inches, with more expected before the end of the season. The normal amount of snowfall through April 26 is…
NATIONAL PARKS -- Early visitors to Yellowstone National Park should bring their snowshoes. Park Spokesman Al Nash said crews are encountering the deepest snow they've seen in 13 years on the park's roads, with the snow on Sylvan Pass 22 feet deep, with some drifts…
WILDLIFE ENFORCEMENT -- The Colville Tribe's ongoing snit with Washington Fish and Wildlife police has become more formal and more troubling in the past month. The Tribe has been telling the state Fish and Wildlife Department officers for at least a year that they couldn't…
WILDLIFE -- Wolves rile elk hunters into a tizzy, but where's the outrage over the increasing harassment of elk on their winter range by shed antler hunters? Wildlife agencies across the West are experiencing more and more people competing for the valuable prizes that fall…
BIRDWATCHING -- Texas apparently is the place to be for diversity of bird species. On Friday, a team of birders set a national record for identifying the highest number of bird species in a 24-hour period during a midnight to midnight birding blowout across eastern…
OUTDOORS/CLIMBING -- The University of Georgia has not yet decided whether it will award the Delta Prize for Global Understanding to best-selling author Greg Mortenson after he was accused of financial mismanagement and literary fraud, according to the Associated Press. Betty Jean Craige, director of…
BIG-GAME HUNTING -- The 41 hunters who successfully -- and legally -- killed polar bears in early 2008, just before the U.S. declared the species endangered, are in court fighting to get their trophies imported from Canada. The Idaho Statesman provides a good update in…
SKIING -- Visitors to OnTheSnow.com rated Lookout Pass ski area on the Idaho-Montana border as their "Favorite Family-Friendly Resort" in the Pacific Northwest. The data period for voting was January 2011 when a Nielsen audit showed 3.4 million unique browsers logged in to the world's…
STATE PARKS -- Volunteers are needed May 7 from 9 a.m. to 1 p.m., for trail work a Riverside State Park organized by the Riverside State Park Foundation. Note: The date has been changed since a previous post. Tools, gloves, and snacks will be provided…
OUTFITTING -- Legendary Western Montana wilderness outfitter Smoke Elser is teaching a two-day outfitting and packing course at Glacier Outdoor Center in West Glacier on May 14-15. The two-day hands-on course is open to novice packers as well as experienced packers who want to learn…
Rich Landers writes and photographs stories and columns for a wide range of outdoors coverage, including Outdoors feature sections on Sunday and Thursday.
