CONSERVATION -- The Dream Trail through the Dishman Hills of Spokane Valley has come 269 acres closer to reality this week with the purchase of two parcels in the Glenrose area. Two adjoining parcels were purchased with $473,500 from the Spokane County Conservation Futures Program…
RESERVOIRS -- The level of Lake Roosevelt was 1241.90 this moring and continuing to drop about 1.5 feet a day. That rate forecast to continue at least through the rest of the month to reach the flood control elevation of 1220.2. The plan could change,…
INVASIVE SPECIES -- A dive team to assess an outbreak of invasive asian clams in the Hope area of Lake Pend Oreille is being organized for Monday by the Idaho Department of Agriculture and Bonner County. The clams were detected recently during the pre-runoff lake…
HUNTING -- These wild turkeys feel free to trot through the Ponderosa neighborhood in Spokane Valley even though Washington's general turkey hunting season opens Sunday. The front-runners are clearly jakes, as indicated by the short "beards" protruding from their breasts. This little neighborhood parade (photo…
FISHING -- An angler survey is underway at Moses Lake and Potholes Reservoir in Grant County. Washington Department of Fish and Wildlife surveyors are randomly selecting anglers at various access to learn more about the two fisheries. Ceel clerks are checking anglers about 16 days…
OFF-ROAD VEHICLES -- Idaho recently came within an eyelash of stripping the Idaho Department of Fish and Game of the authority to regulate the use of all-terrain vehicles on public land during hunting seasons. An editorial in the Idaho Mountain Express notes that if the…
PADDLING -- An open online collaboration is plotting a map of kayaking play spots on the Spokane River, complete with directions and a few sparse details. Check it out.
Rich Landers writes and photographs stories and columns for a wide range of outdoors coverage, including Outdoors feature sections on Sunday and Thursday.
