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Outdoors

What's there to do in the great outdoors? Here we've got a bevy of local outdoor activities and destinations to explore.

Updated 3 days, 14 hours ago

North Idaho Bear Fair returns

Updated 7 years, 11 months ago
Expect delays for road work in Coeur d'Alene River Ranger District

Forest visitors to the Coeur d’Alene River Ranger District may encounter delays as road construction projects continue into the fall. Alternate routes may be unpaved, narrow, and present difficulties for vehicles w…

Updated 7 years, 11 months ago
Cougar Fire closure rescinded

The Idaho Panhandle National Forests has rescinded the roads, trails and area closure for the Cougar Fire on the Sandpoint Ranger District. The construction closure is still in place for the Lightning Creek Road No…

Updated 7 years, 11 months ago
Road closures on the St. Joe Forest

Road closures on the St. Joe National Forest may affect hunters heading into the woods for the general elk season.

Updated 7 years, 11 months ago
Harvest a few birds today, get a few birds tomorrow

Jim Hagedorn remembers those days.

Updated 7 years, 11 months ago
Tracking night into day

It doesn’t get any more natural than this.

Updated 7 years, 11 months ago
Stocking pheasants slated for youth hunting opportunity

Idaho youths can bang at flying birds starting Saturday in selected areas in the Palouse and near Lewiston.

Updated 7 years, 11 months ago
IDFG volunteers, technicians band 700 birds in North Idaho WMAs

Idaho Fish and Game volunteers and technicians banded more than 700 birds recently as part of an ongoing state waterfowl study.

Updated 7 years, 11 months ago
Fish and Game officials disappointed in judge's decision to cull grizzly hunt

A Montana federal district court judge cut short a plan by biologists across a three-state region to allow a grizzly bear hunt as part of a management program.

Updated 7 years, 11 months ago
Kokanee catch heating up on Lake Cd'A

By RALPH BARTHOLDT

Updated 8 years ago
Don't need permission to hunt Idaho's big, wide open public lands

The grouse flew straight up through a funnel of pine toward a patch of blue sky like feathered corkscrews, and we raised our guns, Honer and me, knocking the birds back down to the ground.

Updated 8 years ago
Pact keeps endowment lands open to sportsmen

The Idaho Fish Department of and Game is spending a quarter per acre to ensure we have more places to hunt.

Updated 8 years ago
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Updated 8 years ago
Idaho Conservation League dinner set

The Idaho Conservation League will host the third annual conservation lecture and dinner at 6 p.m. Thursday, Oct. 4, at the Hayden Lake Country Club in honor of the late Scott Reed.

Updated 8 years ago
IDFG expands wolf seasons throughout the state

Idaho Fish and Game Commission recently approved extending hunting and trapping seasons for wolves in many units, which will take place this year, but are not reflected in the 2017-18 Big Game Seasons and Rules boo…

Updated 8 years ago
Public has until Oct. 7 to comment on rule changes and management plan

Allowing anglers to keep as many mackinaw in Upper Priest Lake as they want, setting a border between the Clark Fork River and Lake Pend Oreille, and increasin…