Lewiston Tribune Outdoors

08/11/2023

Low reservoir levels are putting the squeeze on area boat ramps

It’s a tight squeeze for boats exiting the Greenbelt Boat Launch at Clarkston.

08/11/2023

The Nez Perce Tribe and Perpetua Resources have reached a settlement agreement related to a Clean Water Act lawsuit over pollution being released into tributaries of the South Fork of

08/03/2023

The Middle Fork of the Salmon River is blocked by multiple log and debris jams.

UPDATE AT 1:07 P.M.:

05/22/2023

The early part of whitewater rafting season is well underway and will be celebrated at back-to-back gatherings on the Lochsa and Salmon rivers in coming weeks.

05/17/2023

Feeling crowded out of the prime fishing spots in the Clearwater Basin, the Nez Perce Tribe will experiment with gill nets and drift nets during the spring chinook fishing season.

05/17/2023

Washington Gov. Jay Inslee put his signature to three bills recently that reach into Washington’s southeastern corner.

04/24/2023

The forecast for Snake River steelhead is looking bleak.

Last year’s Snake River steelhead run, while modest, exceeded preseason forecasts and surprised fisheries managers.

04/03/2023

Budget bills sailing through the Washington Legislature contain funding for studies aimed at making Snake River dam breaching a viable future option.

03/25/2023

An ancient combination of geography, sea flows and northwesterly winds that push off the West Coast of North America have made the ocean there especially rich in marine life.

03/23/2023

PORTLAND, Ore. — Spend enough time on the water and you are bound to see some strange things.

03/21/2023

President Joe Biden pledged today to work with Rep. Mike Simpson of Idaho and Sens. Patty Murray and Maria Cantwell of Washington to restore Snake and Columbia river salmon runs.

03/21/2023

Vice President Kamala Harris linked wildfires that increasingly plague western states with climate change Monday and announced the Biden administration will distribute $197 million to help s***f them before they

03/17/2023

Washington looks to a two-days-a-week spring chinook fishing on the Snake River. Fishing is likely to occur at Little Goose and Ice Harbor dams.

Washington is expected to open limited fishing seasons for hatchery spring chinook on two stretches of the Snake River but not at Clarkston.

03/17/2023

A Potlatch man is hoping to raise awareness about trapping and snaring, an activity he sees as cruel, after finding a whitetail deer in his yard with a broken snare

03/11/2023

Project between Elk City and the Selway River aims to improve forest health, reduce fire danger.

The Nez Perce-Clearwater National Forest will use a mix of logging and prescribed fire to reduce hazardous fuels and improve forest health on about 2,100 acres north of Elk City.

03/10/2023

Tucannon River spring chinook, both hatchery and wild, continue to struggle. Fisheries managers will try barging a portion of out migrating juveniles.

In an attempt to boost survival, the Washington Department of Fish and Wildlife will use a barge next month to move about 20,000 Tucannon River spring chinook smolts through the

03/03/2023

SLATE CREEK — The deer carcasses come in more slowly now, two to three at a time.

03/02/2023

Washington Gov Jay Inslee chooses retired wildlife biologists for open seats on Fish and Wildlife Commission

The Washington Fish and Wildlife Commission will have two new members when it meets in Wenatchee later this month.

02/25/2023

Dredging of Lower Granite will allow return of biop prescribed fish migration protocols

The completion of sediment removal in Lower Granite Reservoir will make it easier to navigate for large crafts and small critters alike.

02/22/2023

More than 150 deer were killed during the first week of an Idaho Fish and Game operation designed to prevent the spread of chronic wasting disease.

02/10/2023

Idaho Fish and Game will cull dozens to hundreds of deer in Slate Creek to help contain the state's first and only outbreak of Chronic Wasting Disease.

The Idaho Fish and Game Commission approved a chronic wasting disease mitigation plan Thursday morning that could result in the lethal removal of dozens to hundreds of deer in the

02/09/2023

Idaho to move ahead with plan to cull deer near Slate Creek in Idaho County. The control operation is intended to reduce deer densities and lower the risk that CWD will spread to other areas.

UPDATE AT 10:31 A.M. THURSDAY: On Thursday morning, game officials approved the plan to kill deer near Slate Creek in hopes of mitigating the spread of chronic wasting disease.

02/08/2023

The Idaho Fish and Game Commission hired a Moscow native and longtime employee of the Idaho Fish and Game Department to lead the agency Tuesday.

02/08/2023

Idaho is seeking public comments on its draft management plan that strives to dramatically reduce the number of wolves in the state.

02/06/2023

Citing science done by many of its members, the American Fisheries Society said this week that breaching the lower Snake River dams is needed to guard against the extinction of

02/06/2023

The Bonneville Power Administration will favor its preferred customers over measures designed to help threatened and endangered salmon and steelhead when it distributes $500 million in surplus revenue.

02/06/2023

A successful wilderness rafting trip depends on a complicated set of logistics.

02/06/2023

Think bass fishing is a warm weather endeavor? Joey Walton can prove you wrong.

02/06/2023

A Washington hunting and conservation group said this week it intends to sue Gov. Jay Inslee for failing to maintain a balance of perspectives on the state’s Fish and Wildlife

02/06/2023

Idaho’s wolf population declined 13% last year but state wildlife managers weren’t immediately able to say what caused the decline.