Michael Wright

It wasn’t a long walk, but it was a rewarding one.

Stand on the shore of Lake Lenore and watch the shallows long enough, and you’ll spot the shape of a trout, swimming like it has somewhere to be.

The old turkey call is lined with notches. Dan Wittenberg adds one for each legal turkey the call draws within shooting range. He’s careful to say he’s not the best turkey hunter in the world, but he knows how to talk to birds. While helping young hunters during youth seasons earlier this month, he called in 19 male turkeys. That’s 19 more notches for the old call.

Young anglers will have a good chance at taking home a few rainbow trout from Clear Lake next month.

Micah Ellstrom spent a good chunk of his winter chasing turkeys.

A ranch property and popular boat launch in the Yakima River Canyon are now in public hands.

An investigation into what killed thousands of fish at Long Lake Dam in February ruled out some potential causes, but it was unable to definitively pinpoint the reason so many fish turned up dead.

State and federal fisheries managers want to bring bull trout into a lake in Pend Oreille County, a move they say will help recover the threatened species.