Outdoors
What's there to do in the great outdoors? Here we've got a bevy of local outdoor activities and destinations to explore.
Chinook on the hook
Spirit Lake anglers have another fish to chase, and the latest introduction to the lake should serve to reduce kokanee populations, which usually results in in…
Dressing up for the outdoors gets a dressing down
The preening in which a teenager engages a mirror often sets me back on my heels, and I consider buying a pipe and checked flannel slippers as I gaze longingly into a past that took the last Greyhound over the hill…
Angler grabs a grand in Chinook derby
A Kellogg man earned more than a grand for catching the biggest landlocked chinook salmon in last week’s Coeur d’Alene Lake derby sponsored by Fins and Feather…
Watching the whitetail
Researchers at the Idaho Department of Fish and Game are trying to get a better understanding of the relationship between whitetail deer and predators in north…
Spawning, feeding fish in North Idaho lakes
The spring weather is one of the things early-season bank anglers must prepare for.
Watch out for grizzlies during black bear season
A couple years ago, a female grizzly originally from the Flathead area of Montana denned on the Gold Divide summit between Montana and the St. Joe River.
Leaded or unleaded?
They are ceramic, or hard vinyl, with a picture of a pheasant, a bugling elk or a bass dancing on its tail over lily pads.
Turkey hunting is 'rocking fun'
Someone said that elk are where you find them.
IDFG uses cell tower ear tags to study mule deer bucks
A small, solar-powered ear tag will help biologists track mule deer bucks to help manage the herds that have decreased over the past decades in Idaho.
Pointers for when in the turkey woods: Wear no red or blue, and let the gobblers come to you
Turkey hunting isn’t a shoo-in, even if you think it is.
Meeting will discuss Lake Pend Oreille fishery
The Lake Pend Oreille fishery will be discussed at a public meeting scheduled next week in Ponderay.
Anglin' with Anglen – March 1973
Access bill shot down by southern Idaho lawmakers
A lobbyist for one of Idaho’s largest landowners pushed a bill through the Legislature last year that mandates a fine for trespassers and puts the onus of know…
Throwing in the towel on winter with a good ax- tossing contest
A hatchet works.
Biologist busts some myths about wolves
Wolves live in family groups. They don’t think twice about traveling long distances. They’re territorial. They make a lot of noise. And some have no qualms abo…