FISHING -- These are busy times with families getting their kids back to school, sports events revving up, hunting seasons cranking up, fruit harvest kicking into gear.... No wonder September is such a great time to go fly fishing! Sean Visintainer of Silver Bow Fly...
HIKING -- A grizzly bear attacked a woman in southwest Montana on Saturday but was driven off by bear spray, the Associated Press reports. It was the second grizzly attack in the region in a week. Andrea Jones of the Montana Fish, Wildlife and Parks…
WILDILFE -- Efforts by wildlife managers and sportsmen to restore elk in southwestern Washington have been successful enough to raise concerns of landowners who say enough is enough. The Washington Farm Bureau proposes capping the number of elk in two northwest Washington valleys, where farmers…
DAMS -- A $16 million project to remove century-old Mill Pond Dam and restore Sullivan Creek downstream from Sullivan Lake is slowly getting underway this month. Seattle City Light has been preparing for the removal of the small dam in Pend Oreille County for years.…
FISHING -- Worries that spring flooding would ruin this season's fishing at stocked trout lakes in the Spokane region never panned out, at least not at Williams Lake. Trout-catching has been "amazing" this year, reports Dusty at Klink's Resort. In a report to Randy Osborne,…
WILDLIFE -- The state protective status of yellow-billed cuckoos, loggerhead sea turtles, fishers and five whale species was set by the Washington Fish and Wildlife Commission Friday and Saturday in Port Angeles. Yellow-billed cuckoo was listed as an endangered species in Washington. In 2014, the…
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