OUT & ABOUT

OUTFITTER

Orvis endures

Before President Lincoln, there was an Orvis.

This year marks the 150th anniversary for one of the world’s most recognized fly fishing outfitters, founded by Charles Orvis.

Beginning as a tackle shop in Manchester, Vt., Orvis has grown to a $250 million a year mail order and retail company bolstered by 44 stores and 500 dealers worldwide.

Three thousand people each year attend Orvis fly fishing and shooting schools.

The company has commitment to conservation, donating $10 million — 5 percent of pretax profits — to fish and wildlife habitat projects in the past 10 years.

OUTPEOPLE

In the field

Idaho Conservation League has a new North Idaho staffer.

Susan Drumheller, a former reporter for The Spokesman-Review, is based in Sandpoint, where she can apply her interest in issues ranging from grass burning to protecting wildlife corridors.

Contact: (208) 265-9565 or sdrumheller@wildidaho.org

OUTMEDIA

Hunting

“Wild Game: Field Care & Cooking,” DVD, 225 min., $13.

Details: Chef Milos Cihelka begins this collection of three films in the field with tips for field dressing big game. Other films: cooking venison and how to smoke game and make sausage, salami and hot sticks.

Info: Stoney-Wolf Productions, (800) 237-7583, www.stoneywolf.com.

OUTSPEAK

Galapagos birding

Slide show by Bart Whelton with Spokane Audubon Society, Wednesday, 7:30 p.m., at Riverview Retirement Center, 1801 E. Upriver Dr. (Use N. Granite St. entrance to downstairs chapel.)

Whelton visited the Galapagos aboard a 100-foot to photograph birds and reptiles.

OUTLOOK

Best fishing times

The U.S. Naval Observatory lists peak fishing times in these lunar tables. To maximize results, be fishing at least one hour before and continue one hour after given times, which apply to all time zones.

(* indicates best days.)

Today through Feb. 12

Today

6:35 p.m. 7:00 a.m.

* Monday

7:25 p.m. 7:50 a.m.

* Tuesday

8:20 p.m. 8:50 a.m.

Wednesday

9:15 p.m. 9:45 a.m.

Thursday

10:10 p.m. 10:40 a.m.

Friday

11:00 p.m. 11:20 a.m.

* Saturday

11:45 p.m. 12:05 a.m.

Sunday

12:30 p.m.