FISHING -- Good fishing for rainbow trout will greet anglers at two winter fishing lakes poise to open Friday, according to fisheries biologists who sampled the lakes west of Spokane this week. Hog Canyon and Fourth of July lakes, which traditionally had opened on Dec....
HUNTING -- The trial involving the December 2015 shooting of a trophy bull elk known in the Ellensburg area as 'Bullwinkle' has been postponed again. Kittitas County District Court Judge Jim Hurson decided at a pre-trial hearing on Nov. 3 to join the trials of...
WILDLIFE – A Wyoming hunter has killed a buck mule deer in the Shoshone National Forest that tested positive for a fatal neurological disorder. The Jackson Hole News and Guide reports this is the third hunting area near Yellowstone National Park in which chronic wasting...
HUNTING -- Two Idaho Panhandle land deals totaling 11,000 for the benefit of fish, wildlife and public access have been approved by by the Idaho Fish and Game Commission. The purchase of 1,012 acres of private land near Black Lake, if completed, would add to...
FISHING -- After three days of fishing, the lead the board as changed quite a bit in the 2016 Lake Pend Oreille Fall Fishing Derby, especially in the rainbow trout division. The top fish in the competition so far is a 19-pound, 35-inch long rainbow...
Rich Landers writes and photographs stories and columns for a wide range of outdoors coverage, including Outdoors feature sections on Sunday and Thursday.
