Outdoors

What goes up, must come down.

Snow fell in the mountains in October, stoking a powder hound’s dreams of an early winter and a long ski season.

Ski hill operators do not hibernate during the summer. That is the time they get work done.

A white-tailed deer on the Spokane Indian Reservation has tested positive for chronic wasting disease.

Fly fishing

I said a stupid thing recently, an embarrassing and shameful thing. It is not uncommon for me to embarrass myself, and one might argue I make a living doing just that. The difference this time was that my words hurt someone.

Nathan Kiele had never seen anything like it.

A Canada goose stretches its wings at Queen Lucas Lake during the first week of November in this photo by Melaine Williams.

The Washington Department of Fish and Wildlife is taking comments on a package of proposed land acquisitions, including a large parcel at Grouse Flat in the southwestern corner of Asotin County and a small pond in Whitman County.

A new statewide native trout policy is up for a decision this week when Washington’s Fish and Wildlife Commission convenes in Lynwood.

President Donald Trump has pardoned an Idaho man charged with a federal crime for going off-trail during a record-setting run in a national park last year. Trump pardoned Michelino Sunseri, of Driggs, on Friday, according to a news release from Sunseri’s legal team at Pacific Legal Foundation, a nonprofit that defends people in lawsuits with the government. The organization is often described ...

Federal officials announced this week that they will not produce a nationwide recovery plan for gray wolves, a reversal that comes after officials decided such a plan is unnecessary.

The pronghorn buck was facing the wrong way and the light was fading.

The number of livestock killed by wolves in Idaho is on the decline, Idaho Department of Fish and Game Director Jim Fredericks told a committee of Idaho legislators Monday.

Fly fishing

“You’re going alone?” someone asks me with the concerned tone of the unenlightened. This is usually followed with a list of the dangers of outdoorsing by oneself: Bears, twisted ankles, violent criminals who apparently also love the backcountry and long distance running, and more bears.

A group of koi fin around a pond in the Nishinomiya Tsutakawa Japanese Garden at Manito Park during peak fall colors in this Monday photo by Mark Stoeser.

Seventeen men were convicted of poaching crimes in Idaho and two more are at large after a two-year investigation into a “network” of people illegally killing dozens of animals.