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• Spring prime time for bicycling Yellowstone Park

  May 12, 2013 in Outdoors on Page C12 The sounds were few but defining: the steady crunching of fine black pumice crushed beneath bike tires, the patter of rain pelting helmet and jacket, labored breaths exhaled in plumes, … 2

• Soaring peaks of Teton National Park offer breathtaking views

  April 14, 2013 in Travel on Page D8 GRAND TETON NATIONAL PARK, Wyo. – My cabin was the ultimate in location, location, location. Don’t misunderstand; it was a perfectly pleasant little cabin, if not a bit small (some … 1

• San Juan Islands high on everyone’s list, including Obama’s

    April 7, 2013 in Outdoors on Page C12 Washington’s San Juan Islands are among the hottest items in the world of recreational travel this year. In recent months, standouts among the 28 islands and some 400 more rocks … 1

• Pearl Harbor survivor helps identify unknown dead

  December 6, 2012 in Nation/World HONOLULU (AP) — Ray Emory could not accept that more than one quarter of the 2,400 Americans who died at Pearl Harbor were buried, unidentified, in a volcanic crater. And …

• Grizzly managers look toward bear hunts in Rockies

  December 5, 2012 in Nation/World BILLINGS, Mont. (AP) — Trophy grizzly bear hunts are under consideration for the Northern Rockies in the surest sign yet that more than 30 years of federal protection for the …

• Grizzly managers look toward hunts in Rockies

  December 4, 2012 in Nation/World BILLINGS, Mont. (AP) — With bear-human conflicts on the rise, wildlife managers in the Northern Rockies are laying the groundwork for trophy hunts for grizzlies in anticipation of the government …

• Calif oyster farm closure ends long battle

  November 30, 2012 in Nation/World SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — Kevin Lunny’s struggle to keep his family’s oyster farm running in Point Reyes National Seashore appears to be over, closing out an era of oysterman plying …

• Nation pays tribute to sacrifices of veterans

  November 12, 2012 in Nation/World LOS ANGELES (AP) — From sea to shining sea, the nation paid tribute to its members of the armed services Sunday, both with somber traditions such as a Virginia wreath-laying …

• Nation pays tribute to sacrifices of veterans

  November 11, 2012 in Nation/World LOS ANGELES (AP) — From sea to shining sea, the nation paid tribute to its members of the armed services Sunday, both with somber traditions such as a Virginia wreath-laying … 1

• Google cameras map popular Grand Canyon trails

  October 24, 2012 in Nation/World GRAND CANYON NATIONAL PARK, Ariz. (AP) — Google and its street-view cameras already have taken users to narrow cobblestone alleys in Spain using a tricycle, inside the Smithsonian with a …

• Voice software helps study of rare Yosemite owls

  October 21, 2012 in Nation/World YOSEMITE NATIONAL PARK, Calif. (AP) — In the bird world, they make endangered condors seem almost commonplace. The unique Great Gray Owls of Yosemite, left to evolve after glacial ice …

• Grand Canyon works through list for river trips

  October 14, 2012 in Nation/World FLAGSTAFF, Ariz. (AP) — The Grand Canyon boasts some of the most spectacular views in the world, revealing a rich geological history that few ever see from the Colorado River …

• Ryan asked for federal help as he championed cuts

  October 12, 2012 in Nation/World WASHINGTON (AP) — Republican vice presidential candidate Paul Ryan is a fiscal conservative, champion of small government and critic of federal handouts. But as a congressman in Wisconsin, Ryan lobbied … 7

• Obama to designate Chavez home as nat’l monument

  October 6, 2012 in Nation/World KEENE, Calif. (AP) — Maria Ybarra’s trailer is one of two left on the property that for over two decades was home to Latino labor leader Cesar Chavez and farmworkers …

• High court rejects challenge to roadless rule

  October 1, 2012 in Nation/World WASHINGTON (AP) — The Supreme Court has turned away an appeal challenging a federal rule that bars development on 50 million acres of roadless areas in national forests. The justices …

• Obama declares Chimney Rock a national monument

  September 21, 2012 DURANGO, Colo. (AP) — A dramatic rock formation in southwestern Colorado that was home to ancestors of the Pueblo Indians 1,000 years ago now has protection as a national monument … 1

• Park Service defends refusal to use wolves

  September 20, 2012 BOULDER, Colo. (AP) — The National Park Service acted properly when it ruled out using wolves to control the elk population in Rocky Mountain National Park, government lawyers argued Thursday …

• Parks Service defends refusal to use wolves

  September 20, 2012 DENVER (AP) — The National Park Service acted properly when it ruled out using wolves to control the elk population in Rocky Mountain National Park, government lawyers argued Thursday before …

• Field reports: Fish weir installed on Okanogan River

  September 2, 2012 in Outdoors on Page C13 FISH – A temporary picket-style salmon weir recently has been installed on the Okanogan River about 15 miles upstream from its confluence with the Columbia River near Brewster, the Colville …

• Federal government ending Wyoming wolf protections

  August 31, 2012 CHEYENNE, Wyo. (AP) — The federal government will end its protections for wolves in Wyoming, where the species was introduced two decades ago to revive it from near extinction in …

• Basics about hantavirus outbreak in Yosemite

  August 31, 2012 in Health FRESNO, Calif. (AP) — Answers to common questions about mice and the hantavirus linked to death of 2 people who visited Yosemite National Park: ___

• Yosemite shuts cabins at center of rodent probe

  August 30, 2012 in Health FRESNO, Calif. (AP) — More than 90 cabins in Yosemite National Park are closed indefinitely after the site was found to be at the center of a mouse-borne virus that …

• Yosemite officials say 1,700 visitors risk disease

  August 29, 2012 in Health FRESNO, Calif. (AP) — The rustic tent cabins of Yosemite National Park — a favorite among families looking to rough it in one of the nation’s most majestic settings — …

• Yosemite officials say 1,700 visitors risk disease

  August 28, 2012 in Health FRESNO, Calif. (AP) — The rustic tent cabins of Yosemite National Park — a favorite among families looking to rough it in one of the nation’s most majestic settings — …

• Long-distance relationship: Sandpoint couple scores backpacking Triple Crown

  May 13, 2012 in Outdoors on Page C10 After enduring six months backpacking the Appalachian Trail, Phil Hough and Deb Hunsicker were pretty sure their relationship was good for the long haul. They confirmed they could go the …

• Backpackers gear down for long distance hikes

  May 13, 2012 in Outdoors on Page C9 Phil Hough and Deb Hunsicker have winnowed their long-distance hiking gear to a base weight (sans food and water) of 15-19 pounds, depending on how many luxuries they bring, such … 1

• Joshua Tree area offers hiking, eats, saloons, hot springs

  May 6, 2012 in Features, Travel on Page D8 It’s a dry heat – a boulder-studded, wind-raked Mojave heat in which rock stars lie low, artists think big, Marines train, weird plants jut toward the sun like beseeching biblical …

• With 7 national parks nearby, paradise always within reach

  April 8, 2012 in Features, Travel on Page D8 Within a day’s drive of Spokane, there are seven national parks – Rainier, Olympic and North Cascades in Washington, Glacier in Montana, Crater Lake in Oregon, and Grand Teton and …

• Expert details benefits of bear spray in trailer at Big Horn Show

    March 18, 2012 in Outdoors on Page C14 Hike in groups in bear country. Keep food and trash away from bears.

• Parks offer fee-free days

  November 6, 2011 in Outdoors on Page C11 National parks will be waiving entrance fees for three days to celebrate Veterans Day weekend, Friday through next Sunday. Fee-free days have been offered the past two years as a …

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