BICYCLING -- As of today, 716 riders have registered (limit is 900) for the annual 24-Hours Round the Clock mountain bike race and camping extravaganza at the Seven Mile area of Riverside State Park this Memorial Day Weekend. Take a quick look at the team…
BOATING -- Blackwell Island boat launch, a popular Bureau of Land Management recreation site on Lake Coeur d'Alene, will open for the season on Thursday for the season, the Coeur d'Alene BLM office reports. The site will be open daily from 5 a.m. to 11…
SHOOTING -- Exploding targets are officially a no-no on national forests throughout the West. Citing public safety concerns and the potential for igniting wildfires, Northern Region Forester Faye Krueger has signed a regional closure order prohibiting unpermitted explosives on national forest system lands, specifically to…
Rich Landers writes and photographs stories and columns for a wide range of outdoors coverage, including Outdoors feature sections on Sunday and Thursday.