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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, 16 hours ago

North Idaho Bear Fair returns

Updated 8 years, 1 month ago
A grunting riding video game? Not in this neighborhood, you don't

Riding lawn mowers seem to be the wave of the future.

Updated 8 years, 1 month ago
Fewer spike and raghorn bulls forecast for upcoming elk season

Elk are where you find them, and in the early season in North Idaho that means think big.

Updated 8 years, 1 month ago
Boat facts for the faint of heart

There are some things you need to know about a boat and a lot of them happen in the back end.

Updated 8 years, 1 month ago
Fishery: Time to rethink management plan for Lake Pend Oreille

I feel blessed to live in a region with such a good fishery and fishing legacy. I also concede that the Idaho Department of Fish and Game (IDFG) accomplished q…

Updated 8 years, 1 month ago
Steelhead run starts slow, but better than last year

This year’s summer steelhead run is starting off slow, but it is nearly threefold better than the 2017 run, which was abysmal.

Updated 8 years, 1 month ago
A place of refuge

Cougar Bay Preserve offers visitors a two-mile interpretive hiking trail and opportunities for canoeing, kayaking and watching birds and wildlife.

Updated 8 years, 2 months ago
Black bear breaks into zoo, gets a Fish and Game escort back to the wild

Bear breaks into zoo: it sounds like the punchline of a joke, but it recently happened at Zoo Idaho in Pocatello, and the Idaho Department of Fish and Game con…

Updated 8 years, 2 months ago
ADVICE: On the water; first things first

It’s catching and we’ve all got a touch of it. Cabin Fever. If we’re not currently working on our boat, we are certainly thinking about getting it ready so we …

Updated 8 years, 2 months ago
The best baits to throw today to hook up with bass and pike

By RALPH BARTHOLDT

Updated 8 years, 2 months ago
Absolutely why you took the boat to town

On days like this we took the boat to town.

Updated 8 years, 2 months ago
Remembering a sailor, and his sheepshank, bowline and hitches

I learned the sheepshank not because he tossed me a line and told me to tie one, testing me, like Quint in the shark movie; but because he instilled a desire to learn it.

Updated 8 years, 2 months ago
Foul summer averted for Salmon River boaters

Riggins has been saved from a potential nasty situation.

Updated 8 years, 2 months ago
Trophy size walleye aren't making a splash in Lake Pend Oreille

Some anglers like them, but IDFG wants them gone

Updated 8 years, 2 months ago
Tunnel repair prompts closure of major St. Joe Forest arterial

Work on the historic Fishhook Tunnel this summer will prompt a road closure in the St. Joe National Forest beginning this month.

Updated 8 years, 2 months ago
Diving for cash, fishing for profit

Some days we dove from the boat in the late afternoon to frog swim deep into the murk until our ears popped.