Outdoors
What's there to do in the great outdoors? Here we've got a bevy of local outdoor activities and destinations to explore.
Late season trout casting in archery elk country
CLARK FORK — We crossed the river bridge and then headed west before climbing out of the frogwater lowlands at Derr Island near Clark Fork.
Airboats on the hunt
Steve Croston has been hunting ducks out of airboats along the Coeur d’Alene River for more than 30 years.
IDFG breakfast scheduled next week in Coeur d'Alene
COEUR d’ALENE — Area sportsmen and women are invited to discuss regional fish and game issues beginning at 6:30 a.m. Tuesday at a sportsmen breakfast at the Panhandle Region Fish and Game Office at 2885 W. Kathleen…
Grizzly finds a home
A male grizzly bear that traveled long distances to reach the Selway-Bitterroot Wilderness Area seems to have found sufficient resources to stay put.
Steelhead returns downgraded, again Forecast for Snake, Clearwater more grim than previously expected
A group of state, tribal and federal salmon managers has downgraded the expected return of steelhead to the Columbia and Snake rivers for a second week in a ro…
IDFG proposal Raising nonresident fees, reducing tags for out of state hunters
Idaho Fish and Game commission has proposed limiting the number of nonresident tags and increasing nonresident fees for the first time since 2009.
Time, toils and Tollbom
Ward Tollbom has painted an owl.
Fall Chinook season open on Clearwater River system
Fall Chinook seasons are now open on the Clearwater River from Memorial Bridge in Lewiston upstream to the confluence of the Middle Fork Clearwater and South Fork Clearwater rivers, as well as the mouth of the Nort…
Heller Creek east of Avery closed for 700-acre prescribed burn
A 700-acre swath of land around Heller and Sherlock Creek on the St. Joe Ranger District was closed Wednesday so the Forest Service could burn stands of dead lodgepole pine in an effort to rejuvenate forage and eve…
IDFG: Elk and whitetail numbers strong while mule deer numbers dip
Despite a decrease in the number of elk and deer harvested last year across Idaho compared to a year earlier, Gem State hunters this season should expect to se…
Idaho woman sets mountain climbing records in nation and Gem state
Terri Rowe can’t quite remember what was written on the Wolf Fang Peak register that first sparked her interest in highpointing, but nine years and more than 1…
Tracking pronghorns across Idaho's vast wide open landscape
BELLEVUE, Idaho —– The helicopter banked left and tracked its quarry over the field for about 10 seconds before the net gun went off with a distant “pop.” The …
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…