WINTERSPORTS -- After a soft holiday weekend opening for snow tubing, scenic rides and skiing and boarding on the beginner hill, Silver Mountain Resort plans to crank up more lifts on Friday. The resort plans to operate Chair 1, 2 and the beginner conveyer lift....
WILDLIFE WATCHING -- A pair of public-use spotting scopes have been stolen from the permanent wildlife viewing blind at Reardan Audubon Lake Wildlife Area adjacent to Reardan. The two scopes were cut off steel posts sometime in the week of Nov. 14, Washington Fish and...
TRAILS -- Updates on the John Wayne Pioneer Trail, an Eastern Washington stretch of a cross-state rail trail, will be presented at an open meeting of the Tekoa Trail and Trestle Association tonight, 7 p.m., at Tekoa City Hall. People who cannot travel to the…
A draft management plan for two recently created central Idaho wilderness areas prohibits campfires at high elevations to protect whitebark pine and eliminates horses and other recreational stock in some areas to protect alpine soils. The U.S. Forest Service and U.S. Bureau of Land Management...
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