Outdoors

Fly fishing

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

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

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.

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

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.

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

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.

Fly fishing

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.

A northern flicker flashes its wing near Usk, Washington, in this March 13 photo by Nia Patton.

Spokane's biggest outdoor show is here. 

The season is over at Spokane’s backyard ski hill.

The clip with the wolves made Ellery Vincent jump out of her chair.

The Washington State Parks and Recreation Commission is seeking public feedback on the future of one of the closest state parks to Seattle.

Old printers, paper jams and disappearing ink have conspired to usher in a major change for Washington hunters and anglers.

I have long said that my church is the one with mountains as disciples and trees as parishioners. After a childhood of cultish exposure to faith, in which righteousness and scripture were used as tools of justification for the unjustifiable, it has always been nature that I found most miraculous, most promising of power and purpose greater than one’s own misunderstood life.

Fly Fishing

A red-winged blackbird calls at sunrise on March 1 at Turnbull National Wildlife Refuge in this photo by David Bessen.