PUBLIC LANDS -- In an apparent effort to open more federal public lands to oil and gas development, mining and grazing, Interior Secretary Ryan Zinke reportedly is considering a rollback of the Sage Grouse Management Plan that was hammered out by a wide range of...
HUNTING – Hunters can zero-in their rifles before the general hunting seasons at the annual Sight-In Days at the Spokane Rifle Club. Club facilities along the Spokane River downstream from the Bowl and Pitcher will be open to nonmembers starting Friday and Saturday from 10…
HUNTING -- After reading the alarming account of a grouse hunter's way-too-close encounter with a pack of wolves, I may always leave the window of my pickup open when I'm out in wolf country with my bird dog. Minnesota hunter Justin Bailey was hunting ruffed...
FISHING -- Chumming – the practice of dumping bait of some sort in the water to attract fish so they can be caught -- is generally prohibited in Washington. That could change if a proposal to make chumming legal statewide for sport fishing is approved...
HUNTING -- Because of an apparent oversight in Washington's 2016 and 2017 fall turkey hunting seasons, camouflaged hunters could find themselves in the field during the general modern rifle deer season. Washington seasons for turkey hunters as well as archery and muzzleloader big-game hunters who...
Rich Landers writes and photographs stories and columns for a wide range of outdoors coverage, including Outdoors feature sections on Sunday and Thursday.
