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Clearwater spring chinook season opening with larger bag limits

Idaho’s spring chinook season opens April 25 with a more aggressive bag limit for most of the Clearwater River system and more flexibility for fish managers to adjust the season on the fly.

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A new hunting and fishing license this year comes with a question: Print or digital? | Michael Wright

Tails, wings and spreadsheets: At wing bee, biologists search for details on Washington's forest grouse populations
Washington to stop printing hunting, fishing licenses on waterproof paper
New campgrounds, bathrooms added to Asotin Wildlife Area

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Clearwater spring chinook season opening with larger bag limits

Hiking

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

Wintersports

Man beats the odds to survive 4.5-hour avalanche burial at Stevens Pass Mountain Resort in Washington

Conservation

Yellowstone wolf’s skeleton testifies to the strains of a wild life

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Sailing for married couples | Ammi Midstokke

Field Reports

St. Joe property moves into public ownership | Field Reports

Fish-Hunt Report

Alan Liere’s hunting and fishing report for April 2, 2026

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Alan Liere’s hunting and fishing report for April 2, 2026

Thu., April 2, 2026

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Fort Spokane Visitor Center to close | Field Reports

Thu., April 2, 2026

A 19th century building at Lake Roosevelt National Recreation Area is getting a facelifft.

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Quack flight | Outdoors reader photo gallery

Thu., April 2, 2026

A mallard takes off at Saltese Wetlands in this March 23 photo by Terry Sanborn.

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Sailing for married couples | Ammi Midstokke

Thu., April 2, 2026

Some people work on their marriage by spending hundreds of dollars on a sofa across the room from a therapist who knows them well. Charlie and I work on ours by sharing a V-berth the size of a phone booth for a week within earshot of several strangers.

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Man beats the odds to survive 4.5-hour avalanche burial at Stevens Pass Mountain Resort in Washington

UPDATED: Wed., April 1, 2026

On Feb. 26, a skier later identified as Michael Harris was solo skiing at Vail Resorts-owned Stevens Pass Mountain Resort in Washington. Described as a lifelong skier by local news and as a regular at the ski area who was familiar with local terrain, what started as a normal day on the mountain took a sudden turn to become a life-or-death scenario in a matter of seconds.

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Clearwater spring chinook season opening with larger bag limits

UPDATED: Wed., April 1, 2026

Idaho’s spring chinook season opens April 25 with a more aggressive bag limit for most of the Clearwater River system and more flexibility for fish managers to adjust the season on the fly.

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A new hunting and fishing license this year comes with a question: Print or digital? | Michael Wright

UPDATED: Mon., March 30, 2026

When renewing my Washington hunting and fishing licenses last week, I was forced to confront the question of digital or print.

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Track chair gets more people onto Riverside State Park trails

Fri., March 27, 2026

There’s been a new way to get around on Riverside State Park trails over the past few months.

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Yellowstone wolf’s skeleton testifies to the strains of a wild life

Fri., March 27, 2026

Life’s misfortunes are often written on a body’s bones.

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Schweitzer to end ski season a week early

UPDATED: Fri., March 27, 2026

The season is coming to a close earlier than planned at the largest ski resort in Idaho.

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Alan Liere’s hunting and fishing report for March 26, 2026

Thu., March 26, 2026

Fly fishing

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Herd mentality | Outdoors reader photo gallery

Thu., March 26, 2026

Elk wander at Turnbull National Wildlife Refuge in this March 18 photo by Buck Domitrovich.

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St. Joe property moves into public ownership | Field Reports

UPDATED: Fri., March 27, 2026

The public now owns more riverfront property on one of Idaho’s best cutthroat streams.

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The birds return | Ammi Midstokke

UPDATED: Thu., March 26, 2026

Last week, my kid came home from college with a gaggle of adolescents in various stages of their descent into, or ascent out of, Goth. Or whatever label might be attached to their penchant for red latex platform boots, or black hair, or piercings, or questions like, “Do you know Metallica?” as if I’d grown up in a haze of Olivia Newton John records.

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Idaho forest land near Mount Spokane protected from development

UPDATED: Wed., March 25, 2026

A large chunk of private forest land near Mount Spokane is now permanently protected from development.

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Environmentalists sue over Washington’s new game management plan

UPDATED: Wed., March 25, 2026

Environmentalists have sued Washington over its plan for managing more than 50 game species including elk, deer and black bears, arguing that its approval violated state law.

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Tails, wings and spreadsheets: At wing bee, biologists search for details on Washington’s forest grouse populations

UPDATED: Fri., March 20, 2026

Matt Brinkman knew something was off as soon as he pulled the wing and tail out of the brown paper bag.

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Want to speak wolf? Montana researcher using recordings to understand their language

UPDATED: Fri., March 20, 2026

The hair-shedding cousin of the wolf lounging on your couch may have a wild reason for barking at the postman or howling when an ambulance, fire engine or police car streaks by with its siren blaring.

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Alan Liere’s hunting and fishing report for March 19, 2026

Thu., March 19, 2026

Fly fishing

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An essayist is born | Ammi Midstokke

Thu., March 19, 2026

In the spring of 1990, when I was 11 years old and newly minted in the public school system, I hammered out an essay on purple paper with an ancient typewriter.

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