WILDLIFE WATCHING -- The weather presented only one brief opportunity for good tracking conditions through fresh snow during the nine-day Washington modern firearms elk hunting season that ended on Sunday. Fresh snow is to hunters what the pages of a book are to voracious readers.…
FISHING -- The fishing season for coho salmon -- both hatchery and wild fish -- is being extended to Nov. 16 in the “middle” Yakima River, the Washington Department of Fish and Wildlife says. The season extension is for the section of river from the…
HIKING -- The Dishman Hills Conservancy and Spokane Mountaineers plan to complete a new stretch of trail this weekend linking conservancy lands with the Glenrose Conservation Futures Area managed by Spokane County. The Cliffs Trail needs another 500 feet of new construction to finish up…
UPDATED 1 p.m. with quotes from WDFW enforcement chief. A hunter who took a shot at a gray wolf after being virtually surrounded by a pack in northeastern Washington on Oct. 30 has been cleared of any wrongdoing by Washington Fish and Wildlife police who…
FISHING -- Prized spring chinook returning from the ocean to the Columbia River Basin are likely being killed by seals and sea lions between the estuary and Bonneville Dam in alarming numbers, according to research by NOAA Fisheries. Although the findings are preliminary, the latest…
Rich Landers writes and photographs stories and columns for a wide range of outdoors coverage, including Outdoors feature sections on Sunday and Thursday.
