FISHING -- Triploid trout that escaped a comercial net pens upstream in Lake Rufus Woods are creating a new fishery and a rare opportunity to harvest huge rainbows starting today (Monday) on a 17-mile stretch of the Columbia River between Bridgeport and Brewster, Wash. From…
ENDANGERED SPECIES -- Idaho set its fall gray wolf hunting and trapping seasons last week just two days after a federal judge heard arguments in a lawsuit that once again could undo the planning Idaho and Montana have done to begin taking control over burgeoning…
HIKING – Glacier National Park rangers are warning hikers to think like mountaineers in their preparation for trekking high-elevation trails -- much as I suggested from my recent experience in this morning's post. As they opened the popular Highline Trail at Logan Pass to foot…
HIKING -- From a distance down at Flathead and Echo lakes, the routes looked clear this week. Only one little snowpatch was visible up in the higher forest openings of a nifty lake-studded mini-wilderness that buffers Kalispell from Hungry Horse Reservoir and the Bob Marshall…
MOUNTAIN BIKING -- Riders from across the Northwest are planning to meet on the Kettle Crest Trail Aug. 10-14 to mix trail work with single-track pedaling on the Kettle Crest trail system in northeastern Washington. "One day is reserved for trail work (under the direction…
TRAILS -- "Recently I was dismayed, but not surprised, to find poison hemlock (Conium maculatum) growing beside Hangman Creek below the High Drive Bluff," said Diana Roberts, WSU area extension agronomist for the Spokane/Lincoln County Extension Why is this significant? "Poison hemlock is the most…
SALMON FISHING -- Here are the latest observations on upper Columbia salmon fishing from Anton Jones of Darrell & Dad's Family Guide Service. Chinook and sockeye salmon fishing below Wells is picking up. The sockeye salmon bite below Wells Dam on the Columbia River is…
Rich Landers writes and photographs stories and columns for a wide range of outdoors coverage, including Outdoors feature sections on Sunday and Thursday.
