Rich Landers

Spokane

Outdoors Editor at The Spokesman-Review

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Articles

Back to the Bob: Returning to Montana's vast Bob Marshall Wilderness

Sep 13, 2024 | spokesman.com | Rich Landers

I’ve always had humble appreciation for people who flourish in the inconvenience of a wilderness lifestyle. The 11-year-old daughter of a Montana guest ranch operator sliding off her horse with a trick in mind was just another example.
Triggered memories: Spokane shooter Amanda (Furrer) Banta’s Olympic experience was on target, even without a medal

Jul 20, 2024 | spokesman.com | Rich Landers

The Furrer family forked out $4,000 for a blue Anschutz .22-cal. competition rifle some 20 years ago. Pampered like a Stradivarius, it assisted their youngest daughter in covering a wall – no exaggeration – with awards and medals before accompanying her to London for the 2012 Summer Olympic Games. “I will always keep it,” said Amanda (Furrer) Banta, 33, from her Spokane home recently. “Every piece of the rifle and the accessories have been fit to my body.
Challenge children to appreciate nature one flower at a time

May 1, 2024 | billingsgazette.com | Rich Landers

The golden rule of wildflower etiquette is the three words kids don’t want to hear: “Look, don’t touch.”It seems reasonable to point out that picking an attractive flower that catches your eye eliminates the possibility of anyone else enjoying the same eye-catching pleasure. Unfortunately, most kids, and some adults, are a little weak in the realm of abstract consideration when a brilliant patch of arrowleaf balsamroot is attracting their hands like a magnet.
Challenge children to appreciate nature one flower at a time

May 1, 2024 | missoulian.com | Rich Landers

The golden rule of wildflower etiquette is the three words kids don’t want to hear: “Look, don’t touch.”It seems reasonable to point out that picking an attractive flower that catches your eye eliminates the possibility of anyone else enjoying the same eye-catching pleasure. Unfortunately, most kids, and some adults, are a little weak in the realm of abstract consideration when a brilliant patch of arrowleaf balsamroot is attracting their hands like a magnet.
Wildflower kids

Apr 30, 2024 | missoulian.com | Rich Landers

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The good pick: Challenging kids to appreciate nature, one flower at a time

Apr 26, 2024 | spokesman.com | Rich Landers

The golden rule of wildflower etiquette is the three words kids don’t want to hear: “Look, don’t touch.”It seems reasonable to point out that picking an attractive flower that catches your eye eliminates the possibility of anyone else enjoying the same eye-catching pleasure. Unfortunately, most kids, and some adults, are a little weak in the realm of abstract consideration when a brilliant patch of arrowleaf balsamroot is attracting their hands like a magnet.
U.S., Canada agree to work together on reducing B.C. coal mine pollution

Mar 11, 2024 | cheknews.ca | Rich Landers

Posted: Mar. 11, 2024 10:10AMThe United States and Canada have agreed to launch a probe into a long-running cross-border dispute involving pollution from coal mines in British Columbia flowing into American waters. The two governments are to look for ways to reduce contamination from the Elk Valley in B.C. that flows into a reservoir straddling the border and into U.S. rivers, an issue that has festered for a decade.
Spokane reporter's day of fishing with former Supreme Court justice, Sandra Day O'Connor

Dec 6, 2023 | billingsgazette.com | Rich Landers

Editor’s note: This story originally ran in the Wednesday, Oct. 24, 2018, edition of The Spokesman-Review. A newspaper writer is more likely to get a hug from President Trump than a day on a trout stream with an associate justice of the U.S. Supreme Court. I cherish that day – July 19, 2005 – more than ever this week as Sandra Day O’Connor, 88, has announced she is retreating from public life while she drifts into the unknowns of a dementia that her doctors believe is probably Alzheimer’s disease.
Spokane reporter's day of fishing with former Supreme Court justice, Sandra Day O'Connor

Dec 5, 2023 | missoulian.com | Rich Landers

Editor’s note: This story originally ran in the Wednesday, Oct. 24, 2018, edition of The Spokesman-Review. A newspaper writer is more likely to get a hug from President Trump than a day on a trout stream with an associate justice of the U.S. Supreme Court. I cherish that day – July 19, 2005 – more than ever this week as Sandra Day O’Connor, 88, has announced she is retreating from public life while she drifts into the unknowns of a dementia that her doctors believe is probably Alzheimer’s disease.
Sandra Day O'Connor fishing

Dec 5, 2023 | helenair.com | Rich Landers

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