FISHING -- Washington Fish and Wildlife Department fisheries biologists have provided details on current fishing opportunities across the state, including waters that open for the season on April 1, in the bi-weekly Weekender released today.
FISHING -- Although the Spokane River is sweeping a plume of muddy water into Lake Roosevelt after a week of rain, the fishing is holding up well in some areas of the big reservoirs. Starting before sunrise this morning, three of us caught 13 rainbow…
WILDLIFE MANAGEMENT -- The Idaho Fish and Game Commission stayed within the agency and selected veteran wildlife manager Virgil Moore as the new director of the Idaho Department of Fish and Game Department. The agency made the announcement today. Moore, 59, is the deputy director…
WILDLIFE WATCHING -- As tracks of the first gizzly bears emerging from hibernation were reported recently at Yellowstone and Glacier national parks, Bruce Auchly of Montana Fish, Wildlife and Parks was penning the following insights about bears as they emerge from their dens. Read on...you're…
HUNTING -- The prolonged debate over a controversial proposal to enact a four-point antler minimum for whitetail bucks in two northeastern Washington game management units will be decided next week in Olympia by the Washington Fish and Wildlife Commission. Click here to see the panel's…
WILDLIFE WATCHING -- Birds have giving a thumbs up, so to speak, for Ron Dexter and the seven wildlife ponds he's built on the family property near Mount Spokane over the years. "Besides great blue herons, belted kingfishers, etc., our main attractions are the wood…
WILDLIFE -- Mountain lions don't eat hay, but this veggie bar spready out near Chewelah this winter likely attracted plenty of deer. Cougars like an all-you-can eat buffet deal as much as anyone. This photo is amon several snapped of cougars in February and March…
WILDERNESS -- The Selway-Bitterroot Frank Church Foundation is bringing the Telluride Mountain Film Festival back to North Idaho on April 8, from 6 p.m. to 10 p.m. at the Kenworthy Performing Arts Centre, 508 South Main St. in Moscow. The Telluride Mountainfilm Festival is a…
HUNTING -- Here's an obsevation for the Washington Fish and Wildlife Commission, which will vote April 8 on a controversial antler point restriction proposed for Game Management Units 117 and 121 in Stevens County. A four-point minimum rule is a wasteful way to educate hunters…
OUTDOOR TRAVEL -- It struck a personal chord this morning to read the news that members of the American Motorcyclist Association have voted the Beartooth Highway as their favorite stretch of road in the U.S. The winding, mountain highway climbs nearly 6,000 feet between Red…
BICYCLING -- Bicycle riders have a few weeks to enjoy Yellowstone National Park before it opens to motorized, wheeled vehicles next month. Crews at Yellowstone are clearing snow off the roads and the park is scheduled to open to motorists on April 15. Until then,…
HUNTING -- A voter-approved price increase for some Montana nonresident hunting licenses likely resulted in about 1,200 big game combination licenses remaining for sale after the March 15 application deadline, Montana Fish, Wildlife and Parks officials said in a news release today. About 15,800 nonresidents…
HUNTING -- Washington's youth turkey season runs Saturday-Sunday, giving kids mentored by adults a two-week headstart on the general season. It's prime time for a hunting trip to be all about the kid, and all about safety. Read on for 10 important safety tips from…
NATIONAL FORESTS -- Finally, some good news on the pine beetle infestation that's left much of the West with a glut of firewood. Wyoming’s bark beetle epidemic is showing signs of slowing, forestry officials say, for the rather depressing reason that the insects are running…
PUBLIC LANDS -- The U.S. Forest Service on Tuesday denied a request filed last year from 90 recreation groups asking that snowmobiles on national forest lands be managed under the same guidelines applied to all other classes of off-road vehicles. Those guidelines, established in 2005,…
WILDLIFE -- The grizzly population in northwestern Montana is growing at 3 percent a year -- not bad for grizzlies, experts say. The grizzly is still being scrutinized for removal from threatened species status. Last year, 941 grizzlies were roaming the Northern Continental Divide Ecosystem,…
PUBLIC LANDS -- When I hear the term government waste, I can't help but think about the taxpayer money needed to clean up after the low life that finds recreation in destroying public property, such as mudding meadows and shooting up outhouses. Bitterroot National Forest…
VCA 2010 RACE RUN from changoman on Vimeo. BIKING -- I had trouble WALKING down the streets of Valparaiso, Chile, without hurting myself, or getting mugged. Here's a mountain biker doing it at breakneck speed.
CAMPGROUNDS – A new reservation system debuts Wednesday at 20 of Montana's 54 popular state parks. Starting at 8 a.m Mountain Time, visitors can phone toll-free or use the internet to make reservations up to nine months in advance or as close as two days…
HUNTING -- In response to changes in elk populations, the Idaho Fish and Game Commission voted today to approve big game hunting seasons that reduce or eliminate antlerless elk tags in some areas, according to a new release just issued by the state Fish and…
FISHING -- Idaho anglers will be able to start fishing for chinook salmon on April 23, according to seasons set today by the Idaho Fish and Game Commission. Chinook will open in the Clearwater River, Snake River, Little Salmon and part of the lower Salmon…
HUNTING -- Kids under the age of 16 get the first shot at spring wild turkey hunting for gobblers. Washington's youth turkey season is Saturday and Sunday. Idaho's youth season runs April 8-14. The general spring gobbler season opens April 15 in both states. Get…
HIKING -- This is prime time to visit Palouse Falls State Park, where the water is rushing and the landscape is starting to get green. But don't be content to view the falls just from the parking lot overlook. Steve and Karen Heaps of Spokane…
WILDLIFE -- On April 1, U.S. Census Bureau employees will begin the first wave of data collection for the National Survey of Fishing, Hunting, and Wildlife-Associated Recreation from about 53,000 households across the country. Conducted every five years by the Census Bureau, the survey is…
PREDATORS -- An Angus bull that died last month from injuries after fighting with another bull near Missoula attracted the who's who of non-hibernating predators into the unblinking lens of a motion-activated camera. A lone gray wolf spent just 18 minutes feeding on the carcass…
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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