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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, 21 hours ago

North Idaho Bear Fair returns

Updated 8 years, 7 months ago
'A stick and a string'

To be an archer takes a certain mindset.

Updated 8 years, 7 months ago
Public comment period, open house set for Brebner Flat timber sale on St. Joe

Area residents who want to know more about a timber sale near Avery are invited to a Feb. 27 open house meeting in St. Maries.

Updated 8 years, 7 months ago
North Idaho's parks generate $25 million for economy

By RALPH BARTHOLDT

Updated 8 years, 7 months ago
IDFG plans public meetings to set rules, establish fishery goals for region

Ling cod, or burbot, once a Kootenai River fishery staple, could return to the list of fish targeted by anglers if the Idaho Department of Fish and Game Commis…

Updated 8 years, 7 months ago
Jake brakes, as Idaho as a switchback mountain road

Jacobs brakes are used to slow the engine of a diesel tractor trailer loaded with logs, or rock, or cattle when it needs to be slowed without using the air brakes, which require a precious commodity that can run ou…

Updated 8 years, 7 months ago
Access Yes! Could benefit from legislation

If it becomes law, a bill introduced in the U.S. Senate would help Idaho hunters, anglers and landowners with a funding source to open private property to spor…

Updated 8 years, 7 months ago
Panfish or predator? To each his own

She was introduced to pike as a 2-year-old. Just a towheaded tot, stripped down to her diaper on a summer day at a local lake while her dad was hooking panfish.

Updated 8 years, 7 months ago
The pike bite ain't flaggin' at Hayden Lake's north end

Pete Barnes is among a community of anglers who regularly drag their gear onto the ice on the north end of Hayden Lake near the sportsmen’s access.

Updated 8 years, 7 months ago
Wolf trapper certification course here next week

A Wolf Trapper Certification class is scheduled Feb. 9-10 in Coeur d’Alene.

Updated 8 years, 7 months ago
Washed away

By RALPH BARTHOLDT

Updated 8 years, 8 months ago
Remembering wolves amid efforts to keep or kill them

I remember two wolves in particular.

Updated 8 years, 8 months ago
Pike relocation project benefits native trout, anglers

By RALPH BARTHOLDT

Updated 8 years, 8 months ago
Shed hunting is about more than tine

This whole antler hunting thing started with a whitetail deer shed found in the strip of cedars in back of the house one spring years ago.

Updated 8 years, 8 months ago
The ice is on, and so are the anglers

By RALPH BARTHOLDT