WILDERNESS -- Some government agency approvals for a proposed Hecla mine that would drill under the Cabinet Mountains Wilderness were overturned Tuesday by a federal judge in Missoula Conservation groups have been challenging government decisions that favored developing the Montanore Mine on the grounds that...
FISHING -- Spokane is distinguished to have a wide array of good fishing waters within easy reach in a day, but nothing sets it apart from other would-be great cities more than having a great trout stream running like an angler's artery through town. "I…
MOUNTAIN ACCESS -- Brett Chambers had to exert a little more energy to get his Selkirk Crest fix over this holiday weekend compared with last year. "Hit the Chimney Bowl from Horton Ridge (near Priest Lake)," he reports by email. "Had two walk two miles...
LAKES -- The ocean has red tide, and Lake Pend Oreille has yellow waves of pine pollen. Mary Franzel of the Friends of the Scotchman Peaks Wilderness snapped this photo during a flight along the lake and caught the massive bands of pollen formed by…
Rich Landers writes and photographs stories and columns for a wide range of outdoors coverage, including Outdoors feature sections on Sunday and Thursday.
