PUBLIC LANDS -- The Washington Post is reporting this afternoon that President-elect Donald Trump has decided on first-term Montana Rep. Ryan Zinke as his Secretary of the Interior – not Idaho Rep. Raul Labrador or Washington Rep. Cathy McMorris Rodgers. "This isn’t the official word."...
FISHING -- Fourth of July Lake south of Sprague was still skimpy on safe ice this afternoon, but Hog Canyon Lake in the Fishtrap area was firming up nicely in this week's cold snap. The two winter trout fishing lakes opened the Friday after Thanksgiving...
WILDLIFE -- Bald eagles and peregrine falcons have been removed from Washington's state list of “sensitive species" by the Washington Fish and Wildlife Commission. Both species had been protected under the federal Endangered Species Act starting in the 1970s. The commission’s action on Friday to...
PUBLIC LANDS -- Here is a summary of what's involved in the Scotchman Peaks Wilderness Act (S.3531) introduced in the U.S. Senate on Dec. 8 by Sen. Jim Risch, R-Idaho: Designates approximately 14,000 acres of Wilderness in the Bonner County, Idaho, portion of the Scotchman...
FISHING – Sport fishermen from Southwest Washington repeatedly exhorted the state Fish and Wildlife Commission on Saturday to implement fully in 2017 the most sweeping reforms in Columbia River salmon management in decades. And their commercial foes, also from Southwest Washington, were equally strident that…
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