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Board certified: Spokane-based professional snowboarder gets own board

Austin Visintainer was 5 years old when the kids from his block let him have a whirl on their snowboard, the thought never crossing his mind that maybe one day he’d be riding a board with his own name on it.

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Hunting

WDFW eyeing Downs Lake property

Fishing

Sturgeon in Hells Canyon on the decline

Hiking

Nighttime rescue on ‘easy’ 14er highlights basic hiking mistakes that can turn deadly

She hiked the entire Appalachian Trail at 80, unaware she’d just made history
Lookout improvement: Forest Service making progress on popular Little Guard Lookout
From forest newbies to ‘certified trail dogs’: College students tell of their experiences maintaining wilderness routes in the Selway Bitterroot Frank Church Foundation

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Board certified: Spokane-based professional snowboarder gets own board

Conservation

Sturgeon in Hells Canyon on the decline

Columns

Ammi Midstokke: The benefits of good enough

Field Reports

Field Reports: Eagles back at Lake Coeur d’Alene

Fish-Hunt Report

Alan Liere’s hunting and fishing report for Nov. 27, 2025

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Board certified: Spokane-based professional snowboarder gets own board

Fri., Dec. 5, 2025

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Montana, Washington poachers’ bragging on social media led to downfall

Fri., Dec. 5, 2025

Bragging on social media was the downfall of six men who faced 34 charges in July for a variety of Musselshell County hunting violations documented by Montana Fish, Wildlife & Parks.

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Sturgeon in Hells Canyon on the decline

UPDATED: Fri., Dec. 5, 2025

Fisheries managers on the Hells Canyon section of the Snake River are contemplating a future in which they may routinely move sturgeon and possibly boost their numbers through a hatchery program.

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Once dismissed by the mainstream, ski ballet is finding new life in Colorado

Fri., Dec. 5, 2025

COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. — The sun was breaking through the clouds one day last April as Lara Rosenbaum stood atop a slope at Colorado’s Monarch Mountain.

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Alan Liere’s hunting and fishing report for Dec. 4, 2025

Thu., Dec. 4, 2025

Fly fishing

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Ammi Midstokke: The benefits of good enough

Thu., Dec. 4, 2025

I read a thing this week that suggested our obsession with optimal may be distracting us from the pleasantly effective approach of beneficial. This is probably how water aerobics was born.

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Field Reports: Eagles back at Lake Coeur d’Alene

Thu., Dec. 4, 2025

It is officially eagle season at Lake Coeur d’Alene.

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WDFW eyeing Downs Lake property

Thu., Dec. 4, 2025

State officials are taking a hard look at buying waterfront property on Downs Lake, southeast of Sprague.

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Environmentalists plan lawsuit over feds’ wolf finding

UPDATED: Wed., Dec. 3, 2025

Environmentalists are renewing their fight to get the federal government to write a nationwide gray wolf recovery plan.

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Washington’s hunting and fishing license app goes live

UPDATED: Fri., Dec. 5, 2025

An app that allows Washington hunters and anglers to keep and display digital licenses is now live.

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Lookout Pass, Silver Mountain to open Friday

UPDATED: Wed., Dec. 3, 2025

More chairlifts will start spinning in North Idaho this weekend.

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Schweitzer announces plans for partial opening on Wednesday

UPDATED: Mon., Dec. 1, 2025

Better late than never.

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Michael Wright: Don’t be like me. Remember to pinch your barbs.

UPDATED: Sat., Nov. 29, 2025

Chris Donley was fishing the Idaho side of the Snake River with a friend last Saturday when they saw a game warden talking to an angler on the Washington side of the river.

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Hanging up his waders: Idaho’s Clearwater region fish manager retiring this month

UPDATED: Sat., Nov. 29, 2025

Joe DuPont did not know jobs like his existed when he was an undergraduate at the University of Idaho.

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Pump failure kills more than 1 million chinook salmon at Idaho hatchery

UPDATED: Sat., Nov. 29, 2025

More than 1.2 million tiny juvenile chinook died at the Rapid River Hatchery earlier this month, a loss that could be felt by anglers from the mouth of the Columbia River to Riggins in the coming years.

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Opening dates for Spokane-area ski hills delayed

UPDATED: Sat., Nov. 29, 2025

Chairlifts around the Inland Northwest will remain stationary this week as the region continues to stay light on snow.

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Alan Liere’s hunting and fishing report for Nov. 27, 2025

Thu., Nov. 27, 2025

Tip of the week

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Ammi Midstokke: Ambitions of a would-be mermaid

Thu., Nov. 27, 2025

I know how to swim, but I have about as much grace as a toddler with those bright orange arm floaties, bobbing about somewhere between ecstatic-at-floating and half-drowned-by-splashing.

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Avoiding the table

Thu., Nov. 27, 2025

A turkey hangs out on a tree in the Pend Oreille River Valley last week in this photo by Nia Patton.

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Skin in the game: Idaho’s new policy requires out-of-state hunters to put up cash for the chance at tags

Thu., Nov. 27, 2025

The Idaho Department of Fish and Game is shaking up the way nonresident hunters obtain some big game hunting tags.

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