BOATING -- Most of the recreation facilities at Dworshak Dam and Reservoir are buttoning up for the winter. Dam View, Grandad and Canyon Creek campgrounds, and Merrys Bay day-use area are closed for the season and will reopen in the spring 2013 as weather conditions…
FISHING -- As Oregon and Washington consider banning gill nets from the lower Columbia River, some worry the move could have unintended and negative consequences on salmon fisheries in Idaho and Eastern Washington. Check out this report by the Columbia Basin Bulletin.
WILDLIFE -- The good news: Wildlife populations in the U.S. have experienced an astonishing resurgence. The bad news: All those animals are now our neighbors. See the story: America Gone Wild in the Wall Street Journal.
Rich Landers writes and photographs stories and columns for a wide range of outdoors coverage, including Outdoors feature sections on Sunday and Thursday.