Outdoors
What's there to do in the great outdoors? Here we've got a bevy of local outdoor activities and destinations to explore.
Grouse season opens this weekend
The Panhandle grouse season that starts Friday and runs until the end of January is a welcome sideshow in North Idaho where forest grouse hunting gives people …
Anglin with Anglen - 1973
Alligator lizard continues to adapt, thrive
Despite its common name, Elgaria coerulea is of no relation to the alligator. This reptile is a member of the Anguidae family, a diverse group of lizards commo…
Deer poached with a pellet gun in Pocatello
A mule deer doe was illegally killed near Pocatello with a pellet gun.
Fish the cool edge of day or try hiking into a mountain lake
Rivers
Steelhead counts lower than average in Snake River
The return of steelhead to the Snake River and its tributaries continues to fall short of what was an already low preseason forecast.
Prescribed fires this month will improve Clearwater elk habitat
Prescribed burns on 23,000 acres in the Clearwater are slated this month in an effort to promote elk habitat in high elevation forests.
Register for Lake Cd'A kokanee derby
Anglers may start registering this week for a Sept. 14 kokanee derby on Lake Coeur d’Alene sponsored by Fins and Feathers Tackle Shop and Guide Service.
Nature's hiding experts school hunters of all species
Elk are crafty creatures. Just ask any elk hunter.
Little river a long ways down
There’s a little river that everyone knows.
Anglin with Anglen - 1973
Editor’s note: For 27 years, beginning Feb. 8, 1973, Ralph Anglen of Bonners Ferry wrote an outdoor column for the local paper that was widely read and used as a source of fishing and hunting information. It was ca…
Voices on the river
When Kaitlin Barnhart fishes, she often uses a nine-foot, five-weight fly rod with a weight forward line, a light tippet and a caddis fly imitation that she lays delicately in the moving water at the end of a run.
Speed, slow. Memories? Yes.
THORNE BAY — Any memories, they asked.
Airstrip angers wilderness advocates
Wilderness advocates and fans are upset over an Idaho Fish and Game airstrip built in the middle of the Frank Church-River of No Return Wilderness Area but have little recourse to fight it.
Bear spray, archery ranges and wolf management among programs funded by IDFG grants
More than $100,000 was awarded to a dozen Idaho outdoor groups through a Fish and Game grant program that will help pay for wolf management, stream rehabilitat…