Outdoors

Among river runners, Idaho is known as the Whitewater State and a pair of University of Idaho students has buttressed that claim by founding a paddling club to nurture the next generation of whitewater wizards.

The gobbles instantly announced, even to my impaired hearing, that I could make this work.

The retreat of snowfields and glaciers across North America has revealed stunning ancient artifacts, such as an 11,500-year-old atlatl dart recovered in the Beartooth Mountains in 2007.

Fly fishing

Contrary to popular belief, the internet, and whoever is trying to sell you a boat, most sailboats are not for sailing.

Warm spring weather is bringing rattlesnakes and people closer together, and not necessarily in a good way.

PULLMAN – John Brown’s battle with the beavers on his property spanned over a decade.

On an average autumn morning last year, Gary Verbrugge would walk off his front porch and watch as a full-grown bull moose took to pruning his apple tree 20 feet away.

A new Idaho study has identified six distinct genetic groups of Rocky Mountain bighorn sheep across the state, opening new doors for management and reintroduction projects.

A pair of hikers in Yellowstone National Park were seriously injured in a bear attack earlier this week.

Yellowstone National Park's elk are known to migrate hundreds of miles, but in 1905 seven cows and three bulls likely set a record – a distance of more than 7,500 nautical miles – when they took a cruise from Washington, D.C., to New Zealand.

A missing hiker from Florida was found dead on Wednesday in Glacier National Park and park officials are investigating the death as a possible bear attack.

Fly fishing

I keep trying to get my banjo teacher to teach me contemporary songs, because if Pink Floyd sounds good, it must sound good on the banjo, right?

The most important part of tying a topwater bass fly is putting enough hair on the hook. So, one Saturday morning in early April, Derek Darst just kept adding more.

Following a warm and dry winter, one of south-central Montana’s major tourist attractions, the Bighorn River, is facing low water levels despite its location below Yellowtail Dam.

In 1950, Ernest Hemingway founded a billfish tournament off the northern coast of this island nation, not far from Havana. Trolling heavy lines behind his 38-foot boat Pilar, Hemingway won the competition that year. “There is great pleasure in being on the sea,” Hemingway would write, “in the wild suddenness of a great fish.”

This photo, taken by Rich Zywiak on April 27, shows a 4-foot-long gopher snake at Columbia Plateau Trail in Cheney. Warmer weather has activated local snake species.

From staff reports