Sports: Outdoors
Published Saturday, Nov. 22, 2008

DAYTON -- Bruce Goodell, general manager for Bluewood, says that if he sees just half the snow as his ski resort received last year, he'd be ecstatic.

Published Saturday, Nov. 22, 2008

DUNDEE, Ore. -- Duck Pond Cellars recently was designated a "Corporation for Conservation" and awarded a Bronze Teal Sponsor Award by Ducks Unlimited.

Published Saturday, Nov. 22, 2008

This much is clear: Both sport and commercial fishermen are unhappy with a proposed spring chinook catch-sharing recommendation for the lower Columbia River.

Published Saturday, Nov. 22, 2008

MAZAMA -- The first study of wolverines in the North Cascades is now an international effort.

Published Saturday, Nov. 08, 2008

SPOKANE -- Money, thrill kills, trophy mounts and extra meat are driving wildlife poachers and illegal traders into the Inland Northwest's forests and fields, say Washington state Fish and Wildlife officials.

Published Saturday, Nov. 08, 2008

People attempting to climb Mount St. Helens must self-register to obtain a climbing permit.

Published Saturday, Nov. 08, 2008

HEPPNER, Ore. -- Fall's flush starts here, in the heartland of Oregon wheat country.

Published Saturday, Nov. 08, 2008

The pending world record elk, shot in Utah in September, is raising eyebrows for its huge size as well as concerns for the direction of trophy hunting.

Published Saturday, Oct. 25, 2008

The Mid-Columbia will be home to two marathons this weekend.

Published Saturday, Oct. 25, 2008

The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service plans to close about 1,000 acres south of Potholes Reservoir in the Columbia National Wildlife Refuge for a few days for fire restoration work.

Published Saturday, Oct. 25, 2008

SOELDEN, Austria -- Bode Miller is thinking big.

Published Saturday, Oct. 25, 2008

RICHLAND -- It dawns quite quickly that this nondescript white house on Cottonwood Drive in Richland is the home of something special.

Published Saturday, Oct. 18, 2008

Upland hunters in Eastern Washington could find more birds in some locations than biologists initially expected when the pheasant season opens today, thanks to an apparent late hatch.

Published Saturday, Oct. 18, 2008

PACKWOOD -- The state Department of Fish and Wildlife has proposed a special hunting season in the Morton-Packwood area to reduce the number of elk that have been traipsing through yards and gardens.

Published Saturday, Oct. 18, 2008

LAKE WENATCHEE -- A large bear spotted three weeks ago in the Chiwawa River Valley north of Lake Wenatchee may actually be one of the secretive North Cascades grizzly bears, experts say.

Published Saturday, Oct. 18, 2008

TWISP -- Hunters in the Methow Valley this year will be greeted by new signs warning that federally protected wolves may be in the area and should not be killed.

Published Saturday, Oct. 11, 2008

Some fishermen always seem to be looking for an angle -- a way to get one up on the next guy, or better yet, a stab at getting one up on the law.

Published Saturday, Oct. 11, 2008

Dan Agnew invested time and gobs of money for the chance to bag what is sure to be a new Washington state record bull elk.

Published Saturday, Oct. 11, 2008

The White Bluffs boat launch on the Columbia River will be closed briefly next week to allow spraying for Russian knapweed.

Published Saturday, Oct. 11, 2008

KENNEWICK -- Hunters in Eastern Washington may see fewer deer than a year ago in some game units when they take to the mountains, hills or plains for the opening today of the modern firearms season.

Published Saturday, Oct. 04, 2008

EUGENE -- The Oregon rifle deer season opens today, and it appears that after a generation of declining numbers, the number of deer hunters in Oregon is on the way up.

Published Saturday, Oct. 04, 2008

In Washington, elk hunters are grouped into the "haves" and the "have nots."

Published Saturday, Oct. 04, 2008

Ryan Spaniel recoiled when he stared into his net at the unusual fish he caught in the Columbia River near the cable bridge.

Published Saturday, Oct. 04, 2008

PORTLAND -- The Northern Pikeminnow Sport Reward Fishery Program paid out $40,000 in special awards to 20 lucky anglers in September, the Bonneville Power Administration announced today.

Published Wednesday, Oct. 01, 2008

The Washington Department of Fish and Wildlife announced today the closure of a 21-mile section of the Yakima River bordering the Yakama Nation Reservation to non-tribal fishing for fall chinook and coho salmon.

Published Saturday, Sep. 27, 2008

PENDLETON -- Blue Mountain Wildlife in Pendleton will have its 11th annual Fall Open House from noon to 4 p.m. Oct. 4.

Published Saturday, Sep. 27, 2008

WHITE PASS -- Clearing work is under way in the Hogback Basin where the White Pass Ski Resort is moving forward with its effort to build two new lifts, a lodge and several new runs.

Published Saturday, Sep. 27, 2008

On a day when a federal fishery agency issued a lengthy proposed plan for restoring threatened steelhead in the Middle Columbia River -- including the Yakima River -- a renowned expert on fish and their habitats offered his own solution.

Published Thursday, Sep. 25, 2008

For the first time in more than 20 years, anglers will be allowed to catch and keep fall chinook from the Snake River in Washington, starting today.

Published Thursday, Sep. 25, 2008

YAKIMA -- A closed sign now graces the front of the KOA Campground east of Kmart along the Yakima River, signifying a new use for the site that has attracted permanent residents and overnight campers for 40 years.

Published Saturday, Sep. 20, 2008

BENTON CITY -- They won't be dueling at high noon, but the fastest and most accurate gunslingers in the Northwest are bringing their six-shooters, rifles and shotguns to the Rattlesnake Mountain Shooting Range this week.

Published Saturday, Sep. 20, 2008

RIMROCK -- Roll on, mighty Tieton, roll on -- at least through the end of the month.

Published Saturday, Sep. 20, 2008

The Columbia National Wildlife Refuge will open a popular area south of O'Sullivan Dam for youths to hunt Canada goose, duck and coots today and Sunday.

Published Saturday, Sep. 20, 2008

BILLINGS, Mont. -- The government is planning to retreat for now from its attempt to take gray wolves in the Northern Rockies off the endangered species list, a federal wildlife official said this week.

Published Saturday, Sep. 20, 2008

RICHLAND -- Dave Kromm's wait has been well worth it, and a good day of fishing this afternoon could be worth $100,000.

Published Saturday, Sep. 13, 2008

Dave Kromm has been looking forward to this week for ... well ... about a year now.

Published Saturday, Sep. 13, 2008

Most of Lake Roosevelt's 1.4 million annual visitors have come and gone for the season, and what many of them left behind will make you wince.

Published Saturday, Sep. 13, 2008

A federal oceanographer says a flip-flop in atmospheric conditions is creating a feast for salmon and other sea life off the West Coast, reversing a trend that contributed to a virtual shutdown of West Coast salmon fishing this summer.

Published Saturday, Sep. 13, 2008

Officials of the Okanogan-Wenatchee National Forest are warning hunters to be aware of a potential hazard in the woods this fall.

Published Saturday, Sep. 06, 2008

Will 2009 be the year that general-season whitetail deer hunters in Northeastern Washington will be limited to shooting only bucks with at least four points on one side of their antlers?

Published Saturday, Sep. 06, 2008

HEPPNER -- Authorities are looking for someone responsible for illegally killing six deer and leaving them to waste in Morrow County.

Published Saturday, Sep. 06, 2008

A boon to rafters on the Tieton River and a hazard to a part of the Yakima River, the Yakima basin's annual flip-flop is getting under way.

Published Saturday, Sep. 06, 2008

YAKIMA -- Seldom do conservation groups applaud a road project.

Published Saturday, Aug. 30, 2008

For the first time since the late 1970s, Washington mourning dove hunters won't have to cram their hunting into two weeks.

Published Saturday, Aug. 30, 2008

The Richland Rod & Gun Club will have its first meeting of the fall at 7 p.m. Tuesday at the City of Richland maintenance facility, 2700 Duportail.

Published Saturday, Aug. 30, 2008

In his seven years as a backcountry ranger in North Cascades National Park, Tom Corbett saw a lot of injured hikers and campers.

Published Saturday, Aug. 30, 2008

The Northern Pikeminnow Sport Reward Fishery Program is adding weekly cash prizes to increase incentives for anglers to catch and turn in pikeminnow.

Published Saturday, Aug. 30, 2008

Most of the Pacific Northwest's Columbia River Basin continues to see good returns of adult salmon as they head back to their native streams or their hatcheries to spawn.

Published Saturday, Aug. 30, 2008

WASHOUGAL -- Chinook and coho salmon releases in the Washougal River will be reduced by 70 percent or more as part of a hatchery reprogramming effort to boost wild fish recovery in lower Columbia River tributaries.

Published Saturday, Aug. 23, 2008

Ending a decade of negotiations, U. S. District Court Judge Garr King in Portland has approved a 10-year agreement governing the catch of salmon and steelhead in the Columbia River between the four tribes with treaty rights and non-Indians.


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