WILDLIFE WATCHING -- I had a chance to soak in some of the conversation recently when a handful of wildlife biologists gathered around a picnic table for dinner at the Little Pend Oreille National Wildlife Refuge. And I was all ears. The "bat lady" told…
FLY FISHING -- Jay Kirchner was fly fishing on the North Fork of the Coeur d'Alene River Saturday morning when he hooked a scrappy cutthroat trout. "It hit an Elk Hair Caddis on the surface," he said. "There was nothing odd about the strike or…
PUBLIC LANDS -- Visitors to the North Idaho Fair, which opens Wednesday at the Kootenai County Fairgrounds, will enjoy one-stop shopping for national forest items such as maps and permits. The Idaho Panhandle National Forests’ booth, located in Building 1, will sell the following items…
Rich Landers writes and photographs stories and columns for a wide range of outdoors coverage, including Outdoors feature sections on Sunday and Thursday.
