Schweitzer Mountain Resort rebranded Wednesday, debuting a new logo and a simplified name.Not everyone was pleased.

Fewer bison migrated out of Yellowstone National Park this winter, reducing the hunter harvest to almost 170 animals, according to numbers compiled by Montana Fish, Wildlife & Parks.

As the trail switch backed and gained elevation the damage from January’s windstorm became visible.“This is where it starts to pick up,” said Debbie Paul a Bureau of Land Management Forester in Coeur d’Alene.Paul was hiking the Mineral Ridge trail, a popular 3.3-mile trail near Coeur d’Alene, in late February. A massive January windstorm toppled hundreds of trees in the 206-acre recreation area. Wind gusts as high as 61 mph splintered and ripped trees from the ground, mostly Douglas and Grand firs. Now, these trees are scattered like matchsticks across the hillside.

Alan Liere’s fishing-hunting report for April 8

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The Idaho Bureau of Land Management’s Cottonwood Field Office is in search of a volunteer campground host for its popular Hammer Creek Campground and Recreation Site.

The magazine Condé Nast Traveler named Washington's Palouse Falls one of "eight waterfalls in the U.S. worth traveling for," in a Monday story. 

In an attempt to protect Yellowstone cutthroat trout in one of their native strongholds, three agencies are joining forces in a proposal to remove rainbow trout from Buffalo Creek in the Absaroka-Beartooth Wilderness.

Idaho's longest lasting environmental advocacy organization has a new executive director. 

For weeks after his accident, Michael Lanza woke up each morning replaying the fall.

Wildlife photography in Yellowstone and Grand Teton national parks, presented by photographer Ralph Kerr of Couer d’Alene, is the program at the Spokane Audubon Society’s April 14 on-line meeting.

My husband got a job in town. The same town I live in. For the entirety of our friendship, courtship, and marriage, our relationship has been based on 48-hour-intervals and social media engagements. Needless to say, I’m panicking.

In 1988, the renowned grizzly bear biologist Tim Manley was working as a research assistant on the South Fork Flathead River, trying to devise a reliable method for counting grizzlies in the dense and mountainous terrain of the Northern Continental Divide. More than a decade had passed since the species was federally protected in 1975, and a critical piece of the recovery puzzle remained missing: What is an accurate baseline population for grizzlies?

The number of bald eagles — a species that once came dangerously close to extinction — in the United States has more than quadrupled over the last dozen years despite massive declines in overall bird populations, government scientists announced Tuesday.

Alan Liere’s fishing-hunting report for April 1

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Starting April 1, 2021 Thursday, the Colville National Forest will offer free personal-use firewood authorizations using a self-service procedure.