When the Gold Hill Trail No. 3 of Bonner County was opened in 1990, it felt like an incursion on our home turf. Our family had only moved there seven years earlier, but had been self-proclaimed explorers and discoverers since.
Summer crabbing season started Thursday. But while the Washington Department of Fish and Wildlife says it should be a similar season to last year’s, there are a few things that have already made this season unique.
Legislative efforts to repeal protections on 45 million acres of roadless forests across the United States have emerged at the same time the Trump administration’s move to ax the national roadless rule seems to be hung up in bureaucracy.
When assessing the health of the Spokane River, many look to the native interior redband trout. A subspecies of rainbow trout, Spokane calls the redband its own, erecting sculptures of it and creating a local mascot of it in the form of the Spokane Indians’ Ribby the Redband Trout.
Fisheries managers for the Idaho Department of Fish and Game are optimistic they will collect enough adult spring chinook from the Clearwater River to fill hatcheries there.
A wildlife photographer this week shared footage showing an extremely tense encounter between a woman and a grizzly bear seemingly intent on attacking her dog.
