Outdoors
Cascade High School students in Plant Science class at WRI Submitted Photo
Red Barn Event: Nexus Ski Film with Sasha Dingle
Thursday, March 23, 7- 8 p.m.
Join WRI and Leavenworth professional skier, Sasha Dingle, to watch the new ski film, Nexus! It is an action sports film documenting five distinct groups of skiers, their connection to the mountains, and how skiing...
Youth Division winners from last year’s Quincy Valley Chamber Trout Derby. Courtesy Quincy Valley Chamber of Commerce
WALLEYE FISHING IS HEATING UP
Rusty Johnston and I got our boat onto Potholes Reservoir last week for a few hours and managed to jig up three, fat, colorful, 16-inch walleye along with several other strikes from fish we didn’t manage to hook. The water temperature on the main reservoir, which is...
Wenatchee- Mission Ridge Ski & Board Resort is excited to announce the addition of eight days of operations for the current 2023 season. The added midweek days of March 27, 28, 29 and April 3, 4, 5, 6, and 7 to extend the resort's daily operations through April 9 and raise the total number of...
Pink salmon caught on the Snohomish River. Courtesy Brianna Bruce, Livin’ Life Adventures
PINK SALMON NUMBERS ARE LOOKING GOOD
Odd numbered years are pink salmon years here in Washington State and 2023 is lining up to be a good one for anglers fishing for them in Puget Sound and its tributary streams. The Washington Department of Fish and Wildlife is forecasting a return of nearly four...
OLYMPIA – From February 15 through March 27, the Washington Department of Fish and Wildlife will accept written public comments on proposed rule changes to regulations for 2023-2024 hunting seasons.
Proposals included in this round of rulemaking include those related to landowner hunting permits,...
Two Bighorn sheep (Ovis canadensis) stand together. Courtesy Washington State Department of Fish and Wildlife.
CENTRAL WASHINGTON - The Okanogan-Wenatchee National Forest is reinitiating scoping for an environmental impact statement (EIS) that would update the existing forest plans direction for the management of domestic grazing allotments.
Washington State has 17 bighorn sheep herds that inhabit grassy...
Michelle Kruse with a Lahontan Cutthroat trout at Lake Lenore. Courtesy John Kruse
New WDFW Commissioners appointed
Governor Jay Inslee has appointed two new Fish and Wildlife Commissioners to replace outgoing commissioners Don McIsaac and Kim Thorburn. The outgoing commissioners were known to be supportive of hunting and the North American model of Conservation.
There was...
Gavin Boggs with his new state record lake whitefish. Courtesy Gavin Boggs
SPRING SALMON SEASON SET
Fisheries managers in Oregon and Washington have published the spring Chinook salmon seasons for the Columbia River and it’s tributaries. According to the Washington Department of Fish and Wildlife, the season will look similar to last year.
The 2023 forecast for upriver...
Coastwide Sports Fishing offers multi-day fishing trips out of Port Hardy, B.C. Photo by J. Kruse
A guided trip into the outdoors can be a wonderful experience. The vast majority of guides and outfitters are true professionals who do a great job but it’s important to know exactly what you are getting into.
THE GUIDE:
It’s sportsman’s show season and you’ll find all sorts of...
A moose heads toward the Douglas County shore of the Columbia River south of Brewster. Courtesy Tara Hosking
BREWSTER – It is a rare sight to witness a deer or a moose swimming across the Columbia River. It is even more unusual to see both ungulates doing so within minutes of each other.
Tara Hosking, a Douglas County PUD Land Use Specialist, experienced just such a life memory while on the river with her...
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