WILDERNESS -- Once a year the Friends of the Scotchman Peaks Wilderness gather for an little party and update on what they've accomplished and plan to do in their campaign to secure wilderness status for the 88,000-acre roadless area northeast of Lake Pend Oreille. The…
FISHING -- The fishing was too good to last. Idaho fishing seasons for spring chinook will close on the lower Salmon River and the Snake River in Hells Canyon at 9 p.m. Thursday, the Idaho Fish and Game Department has announced. Eric Barker of the…
ENDANGERED SPECIES -- A wolf killed a 9-month-old Holstein heifer last week on private property in Stevens County, the Washington Fish and Wildlife confirmed Tuesday. "The wolf pack associated with the depredation has not been determined," said Donny Martorello, the agency's wolf program leader, indicating...
WILDLIFE – A new Yellowstone National Park campaign urging tourists to carry bear spray features celebrities like Bozeman climber Conrad Anker, whose feats include three Everest ascents. Anker is shown on a poster carrying climbing ropes and bear spray. Park superintendent Dan Wenk says that…
PREDATORS -- Proponents of wolf culls in Alberta and British Columbia (just north of Idaho and Washington) argue that it is necessary to remove the large predators from those provinces to save dwindling elk and moose populations and especially woodland caribou on the brink of...
Rich Landers writes and photographs stories and columns for a wide range of outdoors coverage, including Outdoors feature sections on Sunday and Thursday.
