WILDLIFE WATCHING -- For the second consecutive year, a Spokane man's motion-activated trail camera has captured images of a wolf in Mount Spokane State Park, confirming sightings of wolves and wolf tracks that nordic skiers have been reporting with more frequency for several years. The...
MARINE MAMMALS -- The Trump administration on Monday threw out a new rule intended to limit the numbers of endangered whales and sea turtles getting caught in fishing nets off the West Coast, saying existing protections were already working. The new rule had been proposed…
HUNTING -- The secrecy protecting deep-pocket bidders at trophy big-game hunting tag auctions mysteriously stepped up around 2013 after the record bid was made for a bighorn sheep tag. A February New York Times story -- well worth reading -- on bighorn sheep hunting and...
FISHING -- The public boat ramp at Fan Lake in southwestern Pend Oreille County will be closed June 19-23 for minor renovations, the Washington Department of Fish and Wildlife says. During the week long closure, a WDFW crew will remove and replace broken ramp planks…
FISHING -- A 60-year-old fisherman from Georgia has drowned after falling in a creek in south-central Montana. Carbon County Sheriff Josh McQuillan said the man was fishing with two friends on Monday afternoon when he fell while trying to cross Rock Creek south of Roberts…
FISHING -- The sport fishery harvest for spring chinook in the mainstem Clearwater, Middle Fork Clearwater and South Fork Clearwater rivers have been met so they closed on June 11 and will not reopen, Idaho Fish and Game Department officials say today. Spring chinook fishing...
Rich Landers writes and photographs stories and columns for a wide range of outdoors coverage, including Outdoors feature sections on Sunday and Thursday.