PUBLIC LANDS -- After more than 10 years of grassroots efforts to gain widespread support in the Idaho Panhandle and into Western Montana, a bill to designate an Idaho portion of the Scotchman Peaks Wilderness has been introduced in Congress. Today, U.S. Senator Jim Risch...
WILDLIFE WATCHING -- The bald eagle bonanza has boomed at Lake Coeur d'Alene's Wolf Lodge Bay in the past week. The number of bald eagles arriving for the annual congregation at Lake Coeur d’Alene doubled two weeks ago -- and that number tripled in the…
POACHING – With $9,000 in reward money on the table, enforcement officers for the Washington Department of Fish and Wildlife continue to search for the poacher or poachers who gunned down five elk in a canyon near Ellensburg last month. The Rocky Mountain Elk Foundation…
WINTERSPORTS -- A new, improved warming shelter has been installed along one of the cross-country skiing-snowshoeing trails at Fourth of July Pass. Members of the Panhandle Nordic Club put up the shelter and installed a wood-burning stove. "The snowshoe hut up on the Twisted Klister...
ENDANGERED SPECIES – The California gray wolves will keep their endangered species protections even once the rebounding animal hits a population of at least 50, state wildlife officials said Wednesday. The California Department of Fish and Wildlife published its plan for managing wolves late Tuesday,…
RIVERS -- Following a road-show of meetings this fall, the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, Bureau of Reclamation, and Bonneville Power Administration will host two public scoping webinars on Dec. 13 to present information and take more comment on the operations of 14 federal hydropower…
Rich Landers writes and photographs stories and columns for a wide range of outdoors coverage, including Outdoors feature sections on Sunday and Thursday.