CONSERVATION -- The Inland Northwest Land Conservancy is celebrating its 26th year of preserving the region's water quality and the open values of working farms and forests with a fundraising banquet on Friday, Sept. 22. So far, the regional land trust has helped landowners preserve…
FISHING -- With the help of a last-minute 6-pounder and a full-speed run to beat the clock back to the weigh-in station, 29-year-old Bradon Palaniuk of Hayden, Idaho, has become the 2017 Toyota Bassmaster Angler of the Year. The tense action came Saturday at the…
PUBLIC LANDS – Interior Secretary Ryan Zinke is recommending that four large national monuments in the West be reduced in size, potentially opening up hundreds of thousand or even millions of acres of land revered for natural beauty and historical significance to mining, logging and...
ENVIRONMENT -- A month after a train derailment spilled up to 30 car loads of coal down the bank of the Clark Fork River, the coal is still there settling down into the water, and it's smoldering. Photos snapped by residents of the Heron, Montana, area on...
Rich Landers writes and photographs stories and columns for a wide range of outdoors coverage, including Outdoors feature sections on Sunday and Thursday.