PUBLIC LANDS -- Restoration of the illegal road cut into the South Hill bluff is in its third week, with hydroseeding and planting of native vegetation scheduled for completion next week. Avista reports that applications for the final permits related to the restoration project were…
ENVIRONMENT -- The Trump Administration announced today that it would withdraw from the Paris Climate Change Accord. The majority of the world's scientists are cringing. Representatives of sportsmen and wildlife groups are incredulous that they have to start from the ground up again to deal...
BITING BUGS -- In researching today's column on coping with biting insects, I noticed frequent references and praise to a relatively new and effective active ingredient for insect repellents that works on black flies as well as mosquitoes. While DEET, developed by the U.S. Army...
GAME BIRDS – The Inland Northwest Wildlife Council is giving the last call of the season to order day-old pheasant chicks for people who have facilities to raise birds for around six weeks before releasing them into the wild. The council provides the birds in…
BACKCOUNTRY -- Backcountry splitboarder Benjamin Read launched his drone on May 21 to give us a bird's eye view of the snowpack remaining in the east basin of Chimney Rock, an iconic pillar of granite in Idaho's Selkirk Mountains. In the latest access report, backcountry…
Rich Landers writes and photographs stories and columns for a wide range of outdoors coverage, including Outdoors feature sections on Sunday and Thursday.
