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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.

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2026 Deer and Elk Hunting Outlook

Updated 11 years, 4 months ago
North Idaho Sportman's Expo starts Friday

The third annual North Idaho Sportsman's Expo begins Friday at the Kootenai County Fairgrounds.

Updated 11 years, 4 months ago
Volunteers sought to help clean English Point Trail

The Idaho Trails Association will host its first North Idaho trail work party of the season May 30.

Updated 11 years, 4 months ago
Meals on Reels fishing derby coming to Lake Pend Oreille

Saving injured osprey and eagles while reducing the number of predators of game fish are the goals of the "Meals on Reels" fishing derby which is scheduled for June on Lake Pend Oreille. "Catching northern pike min…

Updated 11 years, 4 months ago
Respect private property or risk losing access

In North Idaho, we are fortunate to have a lot of public property available for hunting and for recreation in general. But much of our wildlife resource, parti…

Updated 11 years, 4 months ago
Video shows mother bear rushing toward tourists in Yellowstone

BILLINGS, Mont. - Dramatic video captured by a Montana wildlife official shows a mother black bear with cubs running toward a knot of camera-clicking tourists …

Updated 11 years, 4 months ago
Cost to enter Yellowstone National Park going up

YELLOWSTONE NATIONAL PARK, Wyo. (AP) - Beginning June 1, it will cost more to visit Yellowstone National Park.

Updated 11 years, 4 months ago
Spots still open for NIC at Sandpoint bird class

It's not too late to sign up for North Idaho College at Sandpoint's "Family Birding Outing" class taught by ornithologist and author Brian Baxter on May 2.

Updated 11 years, 4 months ago
Grizzly group to meet in Cody, discuss endangered status

CODY, Wyo. (AP) - A grizzly bear committee will discuss the possibility of removing the Yellowstone region animals from the endangered species list at an upcoming meeting in Cody.

Updated 11 years, 4 months ago
IDFG: Don't wait to take hunter's education course

Idaho Department of Fish and Game advises that spring is a good time to take Idaho's hunter education course.

Updated 11 years, 4 months ago
New Fish and Game video shows how bigger hatchery fish mean better angler success

A video posted on the Idaho Department of Fish and Game website highlights a new approach by Fish and Game fisheries managers that will lead to better success for Idaho anglers. A good share of the hatchery rainbow…

Updated 11 years, 4 months ago
$4M in U.S. projects aim to protect sage grouse habitat

BOISE - Interior Secretary Sally Jewell on Wednesday announced more than $4 million in projects in four states as part of a wildfire-fighting strategy to protect a wide swath of intermountain West sagebrush country…

Updated 11 years, 4 months ago
Trout survival study

Idaho Department of Fish and Game biologists are starting to study survival rates of lake trout that are caught and released by anglers on Priest Lake. The stu…

Updated 11 years, 5 months ago
Bringing back steelhead to the Potlatch River

While surveying the Potlatch River about 10 years ago, the Idaho Department of Fish and Game discovered something surprising - a resilient population of wild steelhead.

Updated 11 years, 5 months ago
Chinook season opens this weekend

The spring Chinook salmon fishing season opens Saturday on parts of the Clearwater, Lochsa, Salmon and Snake rivers.

Updated 11 years, 5 months ago
Looking for lunkers

The first time Valentina Thomson hooked into a northern pike, it took her about 15 minutes to get it into the boat.