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  • How to use bear spray

    March 16, 2012 in Outdoors Preaching bear awareness and the benefits of carrying bear spray is a year-round job for Chuck Bartlebaugh, regardless of whether bears are hibernating or prowling where hunters and hikers roam. … 4

  • No Kid Can Resist a Mud Puddle

    February 27, 2012 in Outdoors A remote trail cam focused on a water hole captures an elk calf’s moment of pure bliss — not unlike any youngster at a water park.

  • When a grizzly steps on your face

    October 3, 2011 in Outdoors Jaime Johnson, a professional photographer from Montana, recently put a video camera on the bank of an Alaska river where brown bears were frequently walking in search of salmon. Let’s …

  • Wildlife Rehabilitators

    April 20, 2011 in News, Outdoors Outdoors Editor Rich Landers talks about the work done by licensed wildlife rehabilitators, volunteers who nurse sick and injured wildlife back to health. Marilyn Omlor is one of a handful …

  • Transplanting beavers

    August 28, 2009 in News, Outdoors Rick Desautel, a wildlife officer for the Colville Tribes, is trapping beavers and moving them to creeks which have been damaged by flooding or cattle grazing in the hope that …

  • Visiting Yellowstone

    August 27, 2009 in News Photographer Jesse Tinsley visited Yellowstone National Park this summer and shares some of the sights from America’s first national park. Despite the millions of visitors it has received, it is … 1

  • Tom Prewitt

    November 11, 2007 in Features Coeur d’Alene Tribe wildlife biologist Tom Prewitt prepares to install a boundary fence last week along tribal land near Benewah Valley Creek, south of Plummer. Prewitt received his degree from …

  • The trout are jumping

    April 12, 2007 in Features, Outdoors Soft-spoken Dave Welton of Olympia travels the roads of Eastern Washington with his tanker truck loaded with rainbow trout from a hatchery in Soap Lake, Wash. He delivered 3200 triploids …

  • Loose Moose

    August 1, 2005 in Features Mondays usually start slow at the newspaper. When photo assignments editor Larry Reisnouer asked if I wanted to check out a report of two moose in Comstock Park, I was …