When the call to join the Yellowstone Youth Conservation Corps was sent out last year, hundreds of teens across the nation answered.
The proposed Astoria Hot Springs Park is another step closer to reality after completing its $6 million fundraising campaign.
All you need is an internet connection, a bird identification guide and a little time and you can join people around the world in the 22nd Great Backyard Bird Count.
If you’re just getting into cross-country skiing or new to the area, here are my recommendations on great Nordic areas within 2 hours of Idaho Falls. These are areas that groom or “set track,” which includes classic (diagonal stride) and often skate track!
One December Barb suggested we try cross-country skiing. Now, this appealed to me like an all-you-can-eat liver and Brussels sprouts buffet.
Idaho Department of Fish and Game officials began feeding a group of 50 elk camped dangerously close to U.S. Highway 20 this week in hopes of luring them away from trouble.
On Saturday, we just about had the ski trails at Teton Lakes Golf Course in Rexburg to ourselves. But we realized it was because people don’t get out of bed that early.
Hoof disease detected in Idaho elk for the first time
In 1984 a few concerned anglers, worried about the decline of the Henry’s Fork of the Snake River caused by unrestricted cattle grazing along its banks, gathered at a cabin in Pinehaven and formed the Henry’s Fork Foundation.
The National Geographic Channel plans to return to Yellowstone National Park from June 23-26 for another live broadcast.
An innovative approach using trail cameras to capture wildlife will allow Idaho Fish and Game biologists to estimate deer and elk populations in a safer, less-invasive, and less-expensive way than the traditional method of biologists flying in aircraft and counting them.
On a long winter’s evening not long ago, I sat back in my recliner with a good book.
The Teton Backcountry Alliance is planning its second “Keep the Pass Open” event this month in Victor.
Bonneville Joint School District 93 fourth-graders recently sent dozens of thank-you notes to the Idaho Falls Nordic Ski Patrol after participating in this year’s cross-country ski program.
A pack of wolves in Yellowstone National Park found themselves floundering through deep snow while hunting elk Dec. 27. The bull elk had the advantage outpacing and fending off the canines.
The National Park Service is extending its comment period on a proposed mountain goat management plan in the Teton Range because its website was taken offline during the recent government shutdown.
The recent conveyance of 600 acres of public land to Challis and other parts of Custer County fits nicely into the city's plans to create more recreational trail systems, according to the mayor.
On Saturday I decided to go to Jackson, Wyoming, and ski and ride fat bikes with the rich and pretty people who populate the Hole. My arrival seriously dropped the averages in both categories. Even the dogs there are good looking.
Permit writers at the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration are hopeful they can meet a March 15 deadline to complete Idaho’s steelhead fishery permit, but an agency spokesman said the recent 35-day partial shutdown of the federal government cost them valuable time.
A few years ago, we climbed a restored segment of the Great Wall of China near Beijing.
Packing a pistol is a way of life for Trina Jo Bradley, a Dupuyer-area rancher along Montana’s Rocky Mountain Front.
The Idaho Fish and Game commission voted last week to drastically reduce the number of available moose tags for the 2019-20 seasons.
While Linda Aman worked as artist-in-residence at Yellowstone National Park she enjoyed inviting visitors to make a painting during one of her regular quick classes held near Old Faithful.
Sometime in the opening week of July 1977, somebody scaled the Grand Teton and pilfered a bit more more than a pebble as a remembrance of the 13,775-foot summit.
The Bureau of Land Management is getting an early jump on spring planting this year.
The Idaho Fish and Game commission voted last week to drastically reduce the number of available moose tags for the 2019-20 seasons.
When national park employees returned to work after weeks of a partial government shutdown, some had to wait for roads to be plowed out so they could reach their offices. Others sat down to computers bloated with a backlog of emails.
A Florida hunter who fled from a grizzly bear that was trying to appropriate an elk carcass thought his Jackson Hole guide was already dead when he first rang 911 from a high slope in the Teton Wilderness.
Anglers can keep taking pictures of their trophy fish without worrying about harming them.
Idaho Department of Fish and Game staff will hold a series of open houses around the state to talk to hunters about their preferences for rules and seasons for the upcoming big game hunts.
So I don’t know if the deer thought they were being helpful, a deliberate pest or just taking advantage of a trail in the snow, but I skied a new area at 7N Ranch on Saturday and it was peppered with deer tracks.
In the 1960s, researchers believed that the limit of tolerance for heat-loving bacteria hovered around 131 degrees Fahrenheit (humans risk third-degree burns if exposed for two seconds to water heated to 140 degrees Fahrenheit).
Annemarie Prince’s family frequented the Florida woods, where the kids were unleashed to fish in the creek, explore and get dirty. “The coolest thing was catching something live with my hands,” she recalls.
Four video cameras may seem like a lot, but Jeremy Chvilicek wants to capture all of the action when he goes goose hunting.
The 28th Annual Kids’ Ice Fishing Derby is planned for Feb. 2 at Hyde Creek Pond near Salmon.
Attention cross-country skiers: the Idaho Falls Ski Club wants to get you off the couch and out into the great outdoors!
Many years ago, an enterprising doctoral student named Robert MacArthur determined to find out if five species of insect-eating warblers in a forest in Maine were competitors. With a clever study plan, he observed the birds and eventually determined that, while the species were similar in si…
Carving turns down snow-covered mountains in Yellowstone National Park is now within reach for more skiers and snowboarders thanks to guided trips.
So I see the Banff Mountain Film Festival World Tour in Idaho Falls as kind of like a midwinter holiday. It comes every year about this time and gives the body and mind a fresh jolt of stoke to carry me through the winter season.
Something catastrophically wrong happened in 2018 to monarch butterflies.
The Teton Regional Land Trust announced this week that it recently closed on two conservation easements, one in the Parker area and another near Victor.
When the weather turns cold, mammals may grow an extra layer of fur. In a heartbeat, birds can abandon harsh landscapes and fly to warmer locations. Humans may add a coat or crank up the thermostat. What about cold-blooded, or more properly termed, ectothermic, species such as reptiles?
First of all, let me say that being sick just sucks.
We asked, and you responded.
Hunters who are looking to apply for controlled bear or turkey hunts during spring can apply in January and February. The application period for spring controlled black bear hunts began Tuesday and runs through Feb. 15. Applications for the spring turkey controlled hunts will be accepted fro…
Four Montana ranches acquired by billionaire Texas brothers Dan and Farris Wilks are being sold by their own real estate company.
Three years ago today, Mike Brede was bleeding profusely, chilled to the bone and near dead.
The ongoing partial shutdown of the federal government has idled permit writers who are under a looming deadline to complete Idaho’s steelhead fishery permit, and some stakeholders are urging Gov. Brad Little to sound the alarm.
It takes a fierce passion to get avid anglers outside in the cold to sit for hours and stare at a hole in the ice.
Astoria Hot Springs and campground was a recreational mainstay for locals and others traveling through Alpine, Wyo., and Jackson Hole before it disappeared in 1999.
Yellowstone National Park announced Friday that it will start providing some basic services during the partial government shutdown by dipping into recreation fee revenue.
A Wisconsin man was killed in an avalanche Wednesday while snowmobiling near Togwotee Pass in Wyoming.
Have you ever been skiing and “hit the wall” – sudden loss of energy – in the afternoon? This may not be due to lack of fitness, but instead improper hydration and nutrition.
From informational pamphlets handed out to tourists at the gates of Yellowstone National Park to roadside informational signs and displays in its visitor center, the park’s staff tried to teach visitors not to get too close to wildlife.
REXBURG – The city is turning Teton Lakes Golf Course into a year-round recreational facility by adding sledding hills and an ice-skating rink.