Outdoors
What's there to do in the great outdoors? Here we've got a bevy of local outdoor activities and destinations to explore.
Ice fishing just getting started
The recent cold weather across Idaho doesn't mean the end of fishing until spring. For many, the best fishing of the year is just getting started.
Company seeks to mine gold in central Idaho wilderness
BOISE - The U.S. Forest Service is taking public comments on its approval of a gold mining company's plan to reopen a 4-mile road in a central Idaho wilderness and drill core samples to find out if two of its claim…
Oregon's wandering wolf, OR-7, gets official pack status
GRANTS PASS, Ore. - Oregon's famous wandering wolf, OR-7, is now officially the leader of his own pack.
Jewell orders firefighting strategy that protects habitat
BOISE - U.S. Secretary of Interior Sally Jewell is calling for a new wildfire-fighting strategy to protect a wide swath of intermountain West sagebrush country…
IDFG to submit price lock proposal for consideration by the Legislature
The Idaho Department of Fish and Game will ask Idaho lawmakers this legislative session to consider a proposal to increase resident Idaho license and tag fees. But the request has a twist.
Winter big game aerial surveys underway
As snow blankets much of Idaho, wildlife biologists with the Idaho Department of Fish and Game are in the sky conducting aerial surveys of big game across the state.
Spring steelhead season opens today
For some anglers, the best thing about New Year's is the start of the spring steelhead season, which opens today.
Ten Idaho trips to cure cabin fever
Your family can watch TV any time. If you have some time off for the holidays, and potentially some guests from out of the area, it's time to get out and show them Idaho.
New year requires new Idaho licenses
Each of the 50 states has its own licensing system for hunting and fishing. Unlike Idaho, many states have hunting and fishing licenses that expire on dates other than Dec. 31.
Cape Foulweather is aptly named, but what a view!
DEPOE BAY, Ore. (AP) - Cape Foulweather. Appropriately named, I thought as I ventured out to a steep viewpoint against heavy winds and sideways rain. Massive waves collided with jagged rocks below, spraying water h…
Geronimo: Idaho's parachuting backcountry beaver
IDAHO FALLS (AP) - This is the story of a beaver named Geronimo and a simpler time of ingenuity when the rodents parachuted into Idaho's backcountry.
Transplanting Oregon bighorns helps their recovery
BEND, Ore. (AP) - It's not easy to catch bighorn sheep in canyon country.
All-terrain wheelchair connects disabled woman with outdoors
SOLDOTNA, Alaska (AP) - On her wooded property outside of Soldotna, Jill Erickson had a hill of which, until recently, she had never been to the top.
Clearwater flows back to normal, fishing is hot
After work that required dramatic fluctuations in the North Fork-Clearwater River and the Clearwater downstream from the North Fork, flows are back to normal t…
Judge comes down hard on flagrant poachers
What started out as a deer spotlighting case eventually exposed a poaching spree that lasted for three months and was responsible for the illegal killing of at least eight deer, one elk and a moose.