Michael Wright

A coalition of environmental groups has notified the state of Idaho that they plan to file a lawsuit over the use of bait for hunting black bears in habitat occupied by federally protected grizzly bears.

Washington wildlife officials won’t kill any wolves in Asotin County in response to the killing of one calf and the injuring of three other cattle earlier this summer.

The streak began on the Fourth of July somewhere west of Divide, Montana, on the Big Hole River. It continued on a slough fed by the Beaverhead River, on the Missouri River outside of Craig and on a small stream near Missoula.

KINGSTON, Idaho – Most summer weekends, Billy Cooter and Cat House go hunting for history.

A cash infusion is going to help Washington shore up its forces in the battle against invasive zebra and quagga mussels.

White-tailed deer in northeast Washington live in a world shaped by two competing limitations – predators and the availability of food.

It’s unclear how they got there.

Washington fisheries officials are making plans to poison West Medical Lake this fall to get rid of illegally stocked fish. 

It starts with the cones. They’re usually gathered in the wild, from whitebark pine trees several thousand feet above sea level somewhere in the West. The cones get shipped to the U.S. Forest Service’s Coeur d’Alene Nursery, where they’ll sit on drying racks for a few months. Once the moisture is out, the cones are cracked by hand to extract the seeds. The seeds are stratified – three days soaking in water, 19 days in a warm chamber, then 100 days in a cooler.

The hunter who killed a grizzly bear northeast of St. Maries last week did so after Idaho wildlife officials said it was a black bear.

A hunter in North Idaho shot and killed a grizzly bear last week after mistaking it for a black bear.

David Moskowitz hasn’t been everywhere in the Columbia River basin, but it’s got to be close.

Mountain bikers will get a chance to test out new rides and take advantage of a shuttle up Beacon Hill next weekend at one of Spokane’s top outdoor festivals.

There was one truck in the parking lot and a couple of one-person boats working the western shoreline of Fan Lake on Thursday, but otherwise, the place was empty. It was sunny and calm, the water glassy, the only sounds coming from the birds. The sort of quiet morning that makes you forget you’re within a short drive of Washington’s second-largest city.

A grizzly bear that was relocated last fall after getting into trouble outside of Colville is back on the west side of the Pend Oreille River.

The word about Eastern Washington’s robust turkey populations is out.

Firewood is a decent home for insect larvae. They can hide out behind the bark, complete their life cycle and grow into adults. It’s also a good way for them to hitch a ride somewhere. Wherever the wood goes, so goes the larvae.

The fungus that causes a deadly bat disease has been confirmed in another spot in Washington, and wildlife officials are urging people to take care in ensuring they aren’t helping it spread.

Even when the weather is uncooperative and unpredictable, Memorial Day weekend feels like the beginning of summer, a spot on the calendar that fuels an irrepressible desire to go outside and do something.

Visitors to the Yakima River Canyon have some new public land to explore. 

Cutthroat trout from Priest Lake could end up on a dinner table in 2025 under proposed changes to Idaho’s fishing regulations.

Bicyclists who ride the Route of the Hiawatha this summer will be pedaling their way through a construction zone, though they likely won’t see any workers.

In the late 1980s, grizzly bears in the Cabinet Mountains were in trouble.