Eli Francovich

The Spokane Tribe will release 150 adult Chinook salmon into the Spokane River at the Sandifur Bridge, Wednesday. The release is part of the Spokane Tribes and other Upper Columbia tribes longstanding efforts to sustainably reintroduce salmon into the upper reaches of the Columbia River basin.

A process managing snowmobile travel in the northern zone of the Idaho Panhandle National Forest is moving forward and the agency is looking for public feedback.

One hot evening last week, Jeff Lambert laced up his hiking boots and tromped around 102 acres of private property near the Spokane Valley with the landowner, Glen MacPhee. MacPhee, a former biology teacher at University Highschool, has owned that particular slice of the Dishman Hills since 2003, and over the year's he's worked every inch of it, clearing trash and improving the forest's health. As a biology teacher, he'd bring his classes up to the land, which abuts the the Phillips Creek Trailhead, to illustrate the classroom lectures. And in the way of that kind of work, MacPhee fell in love with his land. Still, as he said in an interview Friday, he's human and he has a "family he has to look out for."

Washington wildlife managers released hundreds of endangered northern leopard frogs into Washington's channeled scablands Tuesday night in the Columbia National Wildlife refuge in Grant County.

Yellowstone National Park hosted 596,562 recreation visits in July 2022. This was a 45% decrease from July 2021 (1,080,767 recreational visits), the most-visited July on record, and a 36% decrease from July 2019 (936,062), the last pre-Covid year, according to a park news release.

Mac heard the news on a hot day in July. He’d woken up down by the river in a nice spot he’d found a month back, shaded and near a little pool. Most days he’d stay there for a few hours waking up slowly and watching the light dance on the water. But that day was a scorcher and he decided to try to find some air conditioning, so he’d walked up and out of the river valley and to the bus plaza, which is where he heard the news from Jamie.

It was a hot and cloudless day when Taylor Ganz found the dead deer, its fly-ridden corpse already pungent in the August heat. Neither fact discouraged Ganz, a PhD student at the University of Washington who was there, much like a detective in a homicide case, to figure out the how, the when, the why, and most importantly, the who of this death.

Stand on many high points in Washington, say perhaps on the Selkirk Crest looking north toward Canada, squint your eyes just so and it’s possible to pretend this landscape is an untouched wilderness, pristine and pure of human hands.

While the majority of Washingtonians support legal hunting more people than ever just don't care, one way or the other, according to a survey commissioned by the Washington Department of Fish and Wildlife and published Thursday.

Earlier this year, a hydrologist watched “Into The Wild,” a movie based on the eponymous nonfiction book about the life and death of an iconoclast adventurer. A pivotal scene, in both the book and movie, shows Chris McCandless trying to cross a swollen river, and failing. Days later, he died deep in the Alaska backcountry.

In 1600, an English scientist coined the term electricus after penning a six-book epic on all things magnetic and electric.

On a recent run on Coeur d'Alene's Tubbs Hill I was reminded of the fact that proper trail etiquette is not a given. 

Glacier National Parks iconic Going-to-the-Sun road opened Wednesday morning. 

Early in 1999, Avista filed a new federal operating license for two dams on the Clark Fork River.

Washington will not implement wolf-livestock rules two years after Gov. Jay Inslee asked state wildlife managers to reduce the number of wolves killed. 

Glacier National Park’s popular Going-to-the-Sun Road remains closed, making it one of the slowest reopenings in history, the Missoulian reports.

The snow, of the precipitated kind, is gone making way for another kind of white drift.Beargrass. 

A peckish black bear climbed into a Sandpoint man's car over the weekend, according to reporting from KHQ.

Bears in North Idaho killed two pigs and four goats in a series of livestock attacks in late June near the Canadian border.

The Friends of Tubbs Hill group is hosting a cleanup after the Fourth of July. 

Beginning on July 11 and ending on Aug. 25,  three boat-in campgrounds at Lake Roosevelt National Recreation Area will be closed to all public access to replace the pit toilets with vault toilet facilities.

Access to the Little Spokane River from the St. George’s Put-in reopened today. The put-in was temporarily closed due to flooding.