Outdoors
What's there to do in the great outdoors? Here we've got a bevy of local outdoor activities and destinations to explore.
Pair do well at rifle competition
Two members of the Kootenai Valley Junior Rifle Team traveled to Spokane on Nov. 2 to participate in the first mat…
Cabinet-Yaak/Selkirk Mountains grizzly monitoring update
Our 2019 field season began in early May with the arrival of our field technicians for work and training. We spent almost a week on training before crews dispe…
Found: fish cleaning tray
Lost & Found
Montana officials ask residents to help contain wasting disease
LIBBY — Montana Fish Wildlife & Parks plan to remove and collect samples of roughly 200 white-tailed deer to test for Chronic Wasting Disease in the Libby area.
Western paper birch: A tree whose bark peels into sheets
One of the first deciduous trees I learned to identify in Boundary County was the western paper birch. I was fascinated with the white cream bark that peels in…
'Tis the season for turkey chicks
Recently I was driving up the Ball Creek road west of the Westside Road and 10 miles north of the Kootenai National Wildlife Refuge headquarters when around a …
Cliff swallows build nests from mud
BONNERS FERRY — During the past several weeks I have been observing a remarkable darting bird. In fact he is so quick at times he is hard to follow in flight.
Osprey return to nest in Boundary County!
“I think he’ll be to Rome as is the ‘Osprey’ to the fish, who takes it by sovereignty of nature.” (Coriolanus, 4.7.37-39) — Shakespeare 1564-1616
Bald eaglets grow rapidly!
“The eagles nest has fortified branch walls intertwined from the mothers’ beak and tomorrow lies inside.” — Buck Stark
Bumble bees - what is all the buzz about?
“To make a prairie it takes clover and one bee, one clover, and a bee, and revery. The revery alone will do, if bees are few.” — Emily Dickinson
Spring ... when tree buds become leaves
Spring migration at McArthur Lake
Just a few short weeks ago, McArthur Lake and the northern Panhandle remained in the reluctantly-loosening grip of winter. Ice was still thick over the entire …
Likin' lichens!
“There is a low mist in the woods ... it is a good day to study lichens”
Nests are something to get 'egg-cited' over this spring!
Majestic tundra swans visit Boundary County
Spring sounds are music to our ears!
Spring has finally arrived, bringing the sweet sound of music to our ears. One of the most apparent sounds of spring are birds singing. You know warm weather h…