Outdoors
What's there to do in the great outdoors? Here we've got a bevy of local outdoor activities and destinations to explore.
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 …
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.
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.
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.
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.
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…
$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…
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…
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.
Chinook season opens this weekend
The spring Chinook salmon fishing season opens Saturday on parts of the Clearwater, Lochsa, Salmon and Snake rivers.
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.
Great crappie fishing isavailable in North Idaho
Black crappie are a popular sport fish in the North Idaho Panhandle. Found in many of the area lakes, crappie offer great fishing and excellent table fare.
3-D shootout attracts big crowd
More than 600 archers participated in the Coeur d'Alene Bowmen's first 3-D archery tournament of the year.
Time to apply for moose, sheep and goat hunts
Hunters have until April 30 to apply for moose, bighorn sheep and mountain goat controlled hunts.
Davis tapped for St. Joe ranger job
Matt Davis, the acting district ranger for the Idaho Panhandle National Forest's St. Joe Ranger District, will soon be the district's official ranger.