Outdoors
What's there to do in the great outdoors? Here we've got a bevy of local outdoor activities and destinations to explore.
Windy Bay gillnetting for pike aids cutthroat
In an effort to reduce predation by northern pike on native cutthroat trout, the Coeur d’Alene Tribe began gilln...
Spring: A good time to learn the art of building bird boxes
Spring at the sportsmen’s club can mean a lot of things but for one particular season it meant wood duck boxes.
Survey finds increased mountain goats in Sekirks
In February 2020, Panhandle Fish & Game biologists completed an aerial survey of mountain goats in Unit 1. A total of 57 goats were counted in the Selkirk Mo...
Forestry herbicide class is being held in Sandpoint
Forestry efforts to manage plants that impede reforestation or degrade forest biodiversity rely primarily on cultural techniques. But sometimes a discrete herbicide application can make all the difference in such...
The biologists who are losing sleep over sheep
They’re working to solve the thorny problem of mixing bighorn sheep, backcountry skiers
How’s the winter going up there?
A friend of mine called from Arizona.
Burbot fishing ramps up on Kootenai
Mid-February to mid-March often hosts the highest numbers of adult burbot in Idaho
Gold in them hills isn’t just in the pan
To learn the agitated art of gold panning we went north, but we needn’t have gone so far.
Goat packing gains toehold among hunters
But feds want the animals out of the forest
LEAP registration due today
2020 LEAP Updates will be held at three Idaho locations: Lewiston on March 10, St. Maries on March 11 and Sandpoint on March 12.
Whitefish can wait for better weather
The best time to catch whitefish on a fly rod is in July when you’re fishing for trout.
North Idaho black bear study in its second year
When Matt Nelson completes his black bear study next year he hopes to have collared 36 bears from south central Idaho to the Panhandle’s St. Joe River Valley...
Spring sees wood pile dwindle, but there’s more sun in the sky
Spring at the ranch meant fewer than two cords of wood in the shed.
Anglers won’t get lion’s share of returning spring chinook
An early forecast from a group of state, tribal and federal fisheries managers indicates the upcoming spring chinook season could be as, or even more, disapp...
Sno-bikes are latest winter craze
There’s a new electricity in the winter air. Snow-churning, tree-dodging, modified machines called snowbikes are supplying the spark.