Latest from The Spokesman-Review

• Field reports: June fishing clinic geared to adults

  May 13, 2012 in Outdoors on Page C9 FISHING – Sign-ups are under way for 30 openings in a two-session basic fishing clinic for adults who haven’t been introduced to the sport. The Washington Fish and Wildlife Department …

• 2010 featured recreational abundance

  January 2, 2011 in Outdoors on Page C12 As the economy sputtered and unemployment soared, people flocked to national parks and other outdoor venues and federal stimulus dollars spiffed up trails and campgrounds.

• 2010 Highlights from the field

  January 2, 2011 in Outdoors on Page C12 A list of anniversaries, tranistion and milestones that highlighted the Inland Northwest outdoors in 2010

• Landmark youth hunts approach

  September 16, 2010 in Outdoors on Page K4 Potential duck and goose hunters under the age of 16 have the chance of a lifetime in the Idaho Panhandle this month, while a few selected Washington youths will make …

• A tough sell

  April 25, 2010 in Outdoors on Page C10 Several families with farms south of Turnbull National Wildlife Refuge are upset with a long-term state plan to preserve a corridor of wildlife habitat stretching from Chapman Lake south around …

• Swan brings brood back to Turnbull, quelling fears he was killed

    January 26, 2010 in City on Page A1 As he has for possibly more than four decades, the trumpeter swan nicknamed Solo returned Monday to the year’s first big patch of ice-free water at Turnbull National Wildlife Refuge. … 2

• Solo the trumpeter swan still alive

    January 25, 2010 in News, Outdoors Ending fears that he may have been killed by poachers in Stevens County, the trumpeter swan nicknamed Solo returned Monday to the year’s first big patch of ice-free water at … 3

• Birdwatchers unite to catch killer of rare trumpeter swan

  January 7, 2010 in News, Outdoors on Page B1 A wildlife murder mystery is unfolding in the Colville River Valley with possible links to one of the region’s remarkable romance stories. Local birdwatchers already have built a reward of … 8

• Federal budget allots $1.5 million to expand Turnbull refuge

    December 17, 2009 in City on Page A1 The Turnbull National Wildlife Refuge will receive $1.5 million to purchase nearly 500 additional acres of Eastern Washington’s Channeled Scablands. The federal appropriation will help preserve one of the world’s …

• Turnball manager retires after 18 years on job

  July 5, 2009 in Outdoors on Page C10 At a fraction of their salaries and with no stock options or bonuses, a U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service refuge manager near Cheney has done what many high-powered CEOs have …

• Ups and downs for loons, geese, swan

  June 28, 2009 in Outdoors on Page C10 Washington waterfowl have been keeping an unusually high profile in the news this month. Among the top recent stories:

• Sowing seeds far from home

  April 30, 2009 in Washington Voices on Page S8 Representing five different high schools and hailing from four countries, the eight teens planting trees at the Turnbull Wildlife Refuge last week all had one thing in common: They weren’t …

• Turnbull trumpets return of senior swan

  March 15, 2009 in Outdoors on Page C12 Solo is back. The elegant trumpeter swan is likely the elder seasonal wildlife resident at Turnbull National Wildlife Refuge, and one of the oldest documented anywhere among his endangered species.

• Refuge puts hunt in sights

  December 11, 2008 in City on Page A1 More than two hours of dirt-road driving through an off-limits portion of Turnbull National Wildlife Refuge on Saturday garnered a 30-second payoff for two dozen visitors on the annual refuge …

• Hunting authorized on wildlife refuge

  December 10, 2008 in News After eight years of discussion and study, officials at the Turnbull Wildlife Refuge have authorized hunting for the first time since the refuge was established in 1937.