Washington state and Native American tribes in the Pacific Northwest are positioned to score some of $2.6 billion for climate and fisheries programs the Biden administration unveiled on Tuesday. But how much of the money could eventually end up in this corner of the country isn’t yet clear.

When one thinks of timbersports, visions of burly bearded gentlemen with biceps popping out of their rolled-up flannel shirts might come to mind.

A disappointing night of still fishing on Loon Lake this week that saw zero kokanee bites for three anglers, pretty much convinced me that while the kokanee in Loon are large, there are darn few of them.

Fishery managers with the Washington Department of Fish and Wildlife will host an online public meeting on June 14 to discuss plans to treat six lakes and the West Medical Ponds with rotenone

Buck Domitrovich took this photo of great gray owl leaving its perch for the evening hunt on Friday in southwest Montana. The owls hunt from a low perch and glide silently down onto their prey.

There are times when I wonder if I even belong in the outdoors. My thighs rub together, my shorts are always riding up, sometimes I walk the hills, I’m scared of wooden mountain bike features, I ate corn salsa and a melted chocolate bar for breakfast, and I’m carrying the collective calories of three weeks of Italian gluten-free pasta.

A five-member crew on Mount Rainier Tuesday removed the body of a dead man along the route where missing Spokane mountaineer Dawes Eddy had ascended. The Pierce County medical examiner will identify the climber.

A search continued Monday for longtime Spokane mountain climber Dawes Eddy, 80, who was reported missing Thursday during another solo climb to Mount Rainier's summit. He'd left May 30 to ascend the Ingraham Direct route, and Eddy said he planned to return the next day. Eddy, an experienced climber, reported ahead of his departure to park rangers that this trip marked his 50th ascent of Mount Rainier. "Starting on Thursday, June 1, the park initiated a search using both ground and aerial resources," said Terry Wildy, a Mount Rainier National Park ranger, on Monday. Wildy said the search is ongoing and that weather conditions are favorable.

When the lions left a kill, circling vultures converged. When the elephants hid from the sun, the focus shifted to 12 species of larks to identify. At sunset, owls materialized. A birdwatcher’s binoculars have little down time in the African bush

The U.S. Department of the Interior announced last week plans to infuse $161 million into ecosystem restoration and resilience on the nation’s public lands as part of President Biden’s Investing in America agenda.

Washington State Parks took in more money than expected during the past two years as the pandemic drove a boom in outdoor recreation.

The owners of Schweitzer Mountain Resort have sold its operations assets to Colorado-based Alterra Mountain Company, which operates 16 other ski destinations in the U.S. and Canada.

Eleven Idaho ski areas offer summertime mountain biking. Of those, eight are providing lift-served all season and several others are introducing new trails this season, according to Ski Idaho.

Deer and elk were no problem for Kashius Gleason. The 19-year-old member of the Yakama Nation had hunted plenty of them around his reservation in Washington.

Carrie Dugovic took this image of a dragonfly on a blooming buttercup in Colbert.

Busy boat ramps can be stressful enough already, so new boaters should practice backing boat trailers at home before attempting to launch at the lake. Veteran boaters should also remember that everyone had a first season launching a boat, and there are a lot of new boaters out there.

The wolf population in Yellowstone National Park has rebounded somewhat following a reduction in 2021-22 when hunters killed 25 animals that primarily lived inside the refuge where hunting is banned.

One thing opponents and proponents of a recently proposed U.S. Bureau of Land Management rule agree on: It would be a major shift in how the agency manages nearly 250 million acres of federal lands.

The cure for carsickness, it appears, can be found in the panacea of sheer terror of one plummeting over a narrow cliff-edge road (run off by a tourist bus or a horde of Vespas, no doubt) and completing a series of vehicular somersaults from one precarious switchback over another and another, leading to a silent moment of mid-air suspension before crashing into the Mediterranean sea.