Outdoors

Both Snowhaven and Bald Mountain in central Idaho have pulled the plug on their ski seasons.

Aaron Benjamin always loved the water.

More than 80 wild mule deer that found their way inside a captive elk facility in southeastern Idaho have been killed over the past few months, according to an Idaho Department of Fish and Game news release.

Chris Kopczynski has been in front of a crowd hundreds of times.

Many Eastern Washington anglers who avoid ice fishing have the same idea in January and February.

Fly fishing

A moose’s winter battle with ticks is evident in this Feb. 16 photo taken by Gary Miller in Four Lakes.

According to the ski mountain reports, winter has finally arrived with a blessing of new snow. Meanwhile, I’m perusing seed catalogs and wondering, “Is it too soon to hope for spring?”

Washington has a new management plan for species that are hunted and trapped throughout the state, and nobody’s entirely happy with it.

For roughly 700 miles the Yellowstone River gushes, gurgles and sighs from the mountain meadows of Yellowstone National Park before crossing Eastern Montana’s prairie grasslands and joining the Missouri River.

Idaho’s new restrictions on certain hunting technologies have one more hurdle to clear before they are adopted into code.

It’s difficult to quantify the bravery of 25-year-old Taryn Smith.

Two members of the Washington Fish and Wildlife Commission are pushing back on newly surfaced allegations that they shunned government transparency laws and appeared to have colluded with the leader of a wildlife advocacy group on policy matters.

A few days before Christmas, Jared Keeling crawled into a bear’s den.

Four friends on a backcountry skiing trip last month set out to Longs Pass in the Okanogan-Wenatchee National Forest, well-prepared for the journey with decades of backcountry skiing experience and the appropriate safety gear.

Devon and Tyler Peterson are no strangers to skijoring — an extreme winter sport in which a horse and rider pull a skier on a tow rope over a snowy course with challenges like jumps, slalom gates and rings that the rider or skier must collect. What they’re not used to is skijor racing in the Treasure Valley, and certainly not in 50-degree weather when the only snow on the ground has been ...

Fly-fishing

A chickadee rests on a branch near Queen Lucas Lake in Cheney at the beginning of February in this photo by Melaine Williams.

I grew up in a house where you never admitted to being bored. Saying you were bored was a blatant invitation for a list of chores longer than the White Pages. I can remember no single time in which I confessed boredom, though it must have happened on a car ride. Or perhaps car rides were such a coveted break from chores, staring out the window was satisfying enough.