WILDLIFE HABITAT -- Unlike August, when a smoke plume often signals a wildfire, September into November is the season for intentionally set prescribed burns. These low-intensity controlled fires on national forests, BLM areas and state wildlife lands stimulate growth of wildlife habitat and reduce forest...
OUTDOOR BLISS -- I had the pleasure to celebrate my 34th wedding anniversary last weekend hiking with my wife, Meredith Heick, into the Bob Marshall Wilderness of Montana. We saw elk hunters, grouse, wolf scat and were nearly run over by five spooked mule deer....
WILDLIFE -- Most savvy campers have heard about the Yosemite black bears that had become adept at opening windows and even trunks like pop-top lids to get to food left inside parked vehicles. Montana bears are becoming similarly sophisticated burglars. At a camping resort near…
HERITAGE -- Special Archaeology Days events for kids and adults are being organized Oct. 5-6 at the new Wanapum Heritage Center near Priest Rapids Dam at 29082 Highway 243, Mattawa, Wash. Displays and activities include hide processing, tule mat weaving, traditional hemp-string formation, beadwork, weaving,…
CONSERVATION -- The Owyhee River Journals author Bonnie Olin will present a free program on the remote, wild and magnificent canyonlands of southern Oregon at 7 p.m. on Thursday, Sept. 29, at Mountain Gear Corporate Headquarters, 6021 E. Mansfield Ave. in Spokane Valley. The program...
Rich Landers writes and photographs stories and columns for a wide range of outdoors coverage, including Outdoors feature sections on Sunday and Thursday.
