HUNTING -- For the second time since 1937, youngsters can apply for limited permits to participate in a two-day youth waterfowl hunt this fall at Turnbull National Wildlife Refuge. The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service will restrict the hunters under 16 to about eight hunting…
FISHING -- Former Spokane resident and angler John Jankovsy sends us a report of great fishing and great local pride in fish from his adopted home in Mexico. He included the photo above of what's reportedly been accepted by the Guinness Book of World Records…
FISHING -- The fall steelhead harvest season in Idaho opens Aug. 1, on a two-mile stretch of the lower Clearwater River from its mouth to the U.S. Highway 12 Memorial Bridge near Lewiston. The catch-and-release steelhead season has been open on the lower Clearwater River…
NATIONAL FORESTS -- A federal judge signed off this month on an agreement between conservation groups and the U.S. Forest Service to update protections for rare and obscure species that depend on old growth forests to live. U.S. District Court Judge John Coughenour in Seattle…
BIG GAME HUNTING -- The crop whitetail bucks are growing is looking a lot better this year than my tomatoes. This buck was photographed the evening of July 23 in Stevens County by a motion-activated scouting camera set up by Kevin Scheib of Colville.
CONSERVATION -- Vehicles can pick up large numbers of seeds from weeds and other plants and spread them for miles, especially when the vehicles are driven off-trail and under wet conditions. This factor in the spread of noxious weeks is documented in a story in…
ADVENTURE RACING -- Here's the skinny on the upcoming Expedition Idaho adventure race based out of Silver Mountain Resort. Indeed,the race will finish on the mountain at the start of the Blues and Brew Fest. If you're not up to entering -- join the club!…
TRAILS – A trail that plummets down from the summit of Mount Spokane has been closed for re-routing and erosion control. Steve Christensen, state park manager, said Trail 135 is especially popular with mountain bikers, but it’s poorly designed and seriously eroding. Plans to re-route…
CLIMBING -- Take time out to enjoy this 1987 film that set a standard for climbing pictures. Not only is the climber a beauty with bulletproof shoulders, the film is as masterpiece of staging and arrangement. Very cool. French climber Catherine Destivelle was 28 at…
HIKING -- It's not too late to join organizations leading Inland Northwest group hikes this summer. Check them out: Conservation Northwest is focusing on roadless area on the Colville National Forest. CN requests a $10 donation and preregistration for participation in the guided hikes. Info:…
CONSERVATION -- The Backcountry Hunters & Anglers of Washington group is meeting in the Colville National Forest Friday through Sunday for its annual summer meeting and work party. This year's habitat projects will focus on Middle Fork of Calispell Creek, where the group plans to…
HUNTING– A waterfowl calling contest coming up in the Tri-Cities will give the open division winner an all-expense-paid trip to the hallowed quacking grounds of the World Duck Calling Championships in Stuttgart, Ark. The sanctioned Washington Duck Calling Championships are set for Aug. 6-7 at…
PUBLIC LANDS -- Colville National Forest plan revisions, including proposals for new wilderness areas, will be presented in the Spokane and Newport area next week. The Forest Service has scheduled a series of public meetings in July and August to share information about the Draft…
PREDATORS -- The battle over the status of gray wolves in Idaho and Montana returns to court Tuesday, where environmental groups will argue Congress overstepped its authority when it stripped the animals of federal protection last May, according to a report by Eric Barker of…
WILDLIFE ENCOUNTERS -- Seven teens participating in a month-long National Outdoor Leadership School wilderness trip in Alaska were mauled by a grizzly bear with a cub in Alaska's Talkeetna Mountains; two hikers had life-threatening injuries, the Denver Post reports.
ENDANGERED SPECIES -- A large white earthworm (Driloleius americanus) native to portions of Idaho and Washington will not be granted protection under the Federal Endangered Species Act, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service announced today. Federal biologists say recent information indicates the elusive worm, known…
PREDATORS– Hunters will be able to shoot up to 220 gray wolves in Montana this fall under rules adopted recently. The hunt is scheduled to begin in early September and is expected to reduce the predator’s Montana population by about 25 percent to 425 wolves.…
FISHING -- I've often dreamed of tagging along and fishing the virgin wilderness rivers traveled by the Lewis and Clark Expedition as it explored the West. Now it's easy to at least get a flavor for it. A major exhibit of the expedition's fishing experiences…
OUTDOOR HAZARDS -- The deaths of three young tourists who were swept over a 317-foot waterfall last week in Yosemite National Park serve as a reminder of the deadly and alluring beauty of the raging rivers and streams across the West after a record winter…
TRAILS -- Is Spokane’s High Drive Bluff festooned with native plants or plagued by weeds? Author and naturalist Jack Nisbet along with WSU scientist Diana Roberts will lead a hike along the bluff trails on Wednesday to help trail fans understand the vegetation. The event…
PUBLIC LANDS -- The U.S. Bureau of Land Management is conducting workshops in the next two weeks so the public can view maps and participate in developing proposals for managing 445,000 acres in Washington, including the Fishtrap Lake area and Huckleberry Mountains. Issues to be…
FISHERIES -- A fisherman on upper Lake Roosevelt Friday caught a northern pike, a non-native predator species fishery managers worry will spread down the Columbia River system. According to Andy Walgamott of Northwest Sportsman Magazine, the fish was landed by walleye angler Davey McKern of…
OUTDOOR NEIGHBORHOODS -- Spokane Summer Parkways returns to the streets Sunday, from 10 a.m.-2 p.m. on the North Hill side of town -- extending north and south of Franklin Park. It's the second of three celebrations of human-powered transportation. "Even though these are set in…
ENDANGERED SPECIES -- I know it's not funny in the case of an endangered species, but somehow it just doesn't seem right that it should be headline news when two rabbits do the wild thing.
NATURE -- The whitebark pine is making news as a potential candidate for Endangered Species protections, and the domino impacts on species ranging from Clark's nutcrackers to grizzly bears. The whitebark pine, a high-elevation tree, is on the decline in the West, brought down by…
Rich Landers writes and photographs stories and columns for a wide range of outdoors coverage, including Outdoors feature sections on Sunday and Thursday.
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