Outdoors

Ahead of Lincoln Park’s second annual Great Invasive Weed Pluck and Nature Day, organizers warn that attendees may come away with more than just free coffee and doughnuts.

As spring leans toward summer, many people are drawn toward water in that most direct way: swimming.

For the last 10 years, my friend, Rick Bonino, and I have had an ambitious goal: to hike together – or ski or snowshoe together – at least once a month, every month of the year. We dubbed ourselves the Bonino-Kershner Hiking and Brewpub Club, since we decided that every trek would finish with a brewpub visit.

Dad opened the back door of our station wagon and glared at me and my sister. “Get out of the car,” he said through gritted teeth.We’d just pulled into a parking lot at Grand Canyon National Park, one of the stops on our family road trip.

The earth, still soft from spring showers, gives way to the blade of the hoe. The air is cool and a just-detectable breeze moves across the ridge where the Lazy T Trail winds through cedar and fir trees.About a dozen volunteers with the Selway-Bitterroot Frank Church Foundation armed with Pulaskis, McLeod’s, Rogue Hoes, loppers and a crosscut saw named Emma, labor to rehabilitate the trail

Fly fishing

Today is my birthday.

Buck Domitrovich took this photo of a newborn moose calf on Monday at Turnbull National Wildlife Refuge near Cheney. The baby moose’s mother is standing just off camera.

There are many stories beneath the surface of the Spokane River, and local fly-fisher, author and outdoor enthusiast Marc Fryt is bringing them to YouTube.

Among river runners, Idaho is known as the Whitewater State and a pair of University of Idaho students has buttressed that claim by founding a paddling club to nurture the next generation of whitewater wizards.

The gobbles instantly announced, even to my impaired hearing, that I could make this work.

The retreat of snowfields and glaciers across North America has revealed stunning ancient artifacts, such as an 11,500-year-old atlatl dart recovered in the Beartooth Mountains in 2007.

Fly fishing

Contrary to popular belief, the internet, and whoever is trying to sell you a boat, most sailboats are not for sailing.

Warm spring weather is bringing rattlesnakes and people closer together, and not necessarily in a good way.

PULLMAN – John Brown’s battle with the beavers on his property spanned over a decade.

On an average autumn morning last year, Gary Verbrugge would walk off his front porch and watch as a full-grown bull moose took to pruning his apple tree 20 feet away.

A new Idaho study has identified six distinct genetic groups of Rocky Mountain bighorn sheep across the state, opening new doors for management and reintroduction projects.