When I was in college studying wildlife management, inanimate things like rocks didn’t have much appeal to me. I was enthralled by beautiful gems and minerals as much as the next guy, but I just didn’t see the need to fully understand the science of geology to do my job. I liked living things.

Flying over Yellowstone National Park in a helicopter last August, David Arnold fed television viewers a visual feast of bison and bears, geysers and hot pools.

So full disclosure: I didn’t get a full 100 miles on my Saturday ride in Yellowstone National Park. It came to 96.4 miles.

This week I was talking to my daughter who lives in British Columbia. She and her husband signed up with the 10K race of the month club.

Two hard winters in a row are weakening the health of Yellowstone’s northern elk herd.

In 1955, the state of Utah officially recognized the “sea gull” as the state bird in recognition of how flocks of gulls saved pioneer crops from a plague of locusts in 1848. Over time, the California gull has become universally recognized as the bird referred to as the “sea gull,” but the le…

BOZEMAN, Mont. — A bear mauled a teenager who was looking for shed antlers in the southern part of the Madison Valley on Sunday afternoon.

With the marshes across the southern part of the state escaping their rigid ice bonds, waterbirds will be returning soon. Among the superstars such as Canada geese, great blue herons, night-crowned herons, pintails, egrets and more, there will be a small brown bird. As it swims and dives amo…

My son loves to get into Deadwood Reservoir as early as possible each year but in 2019 he may have to wait a bit longer. Deadwood Summit received an estimated 200+ inches of snow in the month of February alone, shattering a record set in 1949 and repeated in 1986.

It’s one of the joys of playing outside: Getting to know new amazing places.

In Bisbee, Arizona, we straddled a small train seat mounted on an open car. With a screech, the small but powerful electric engine pulled our tour group into a mineshaft of the Queen Mine. In its 100-year history which officially ended in 1975, this mine produced eight billion pounds of copp…

North America’s fastest land animal is getting some traction in Washington.

The Sawtooth National Recreation Area opens the Mormon Bend and Salmon River campgrounds for the spring steelhead fishing season this weekend.

Oblivious to the spines, a pair of cactus wrens busied themselves with making a nest in the fork of a cholla cactus in Organ Pipe Cactus National Monument’s Alamo Canyon. Cactus wrens were still relatively new to us and we enjoyed the show. A woman and her husband, obviously serious birders …

It was one of those magical wildlife moments that happen occasionally outdoors.

The Seven Sisters star cluster, aka Pleiades, is an easily found star group in the winter sky. It is located in the Taurus Constellation and the three stars that make up Orion’s belt almost point to it. With just a little light pollution though, this can be a difficult group of stars to see,…

On Saturday, I wanted to skip the snow and go rock climbing outside. It was, after all, March for goodness sake.

The spring black bear drawing is complete, and the results have been posted through Fish and Game’s licensing system. Hunters who already have an account can check to see if they drew controlled hunt tags for spring black bear at https://idfg.huntfishidaho.net/login.

While a warming climate has the potential to cause numerous harmful effects, at least one species important to the West could come out a winner — big sagebrush.

As anxious shed antler hunters prepare to take to Idaho’s hills in search of fresh bounty, the Idaho Department of Fish and Game urges them to avoid stressing wildlife trying to survive the late winter storms.

A Pennsylvania outdoors group has partnered with a Louisiana scientist who claims that chronic wasting disease is caused by a bacteria and that a vaccine could be created.

The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service is currently conducting research on trumpeter swans in Montana, Wyoming and Idaho to determine what is limiting breeding success and cygnet (juvenile) survival.

In an effort to get a better picture of how wild steelhead are affected by fishing, the University of Idaho and Idaho Department of Fish and Game will enlist the help of anglers in a two-year study that will track fish as they progress from Lower Granite Dam through the fishery.

The snow is piling higher in the high country of eastern Idaho and western Wyoming.

Fifteen people sat in a semicircle in what appeared to be the top end of a silo. A moving rectangle of night sky could be seen through the roof as it rotated noisily above us.

The Idaho Fish and Wildlife Foundation is accepting applications for its 2019 grants cycle. The grants program provides funding on a competitive basis to nonprofit organizations, the Idaho Department of Fish and Game, and tax-exempt organizations.

It may be winter, but it’s all hands on deck at the spawning shed on Henry's Lake. Yellowstone cutthroat trout are returning in big numbers to Fish and Game’s spawning shed to bring forth the next generation.

Whether in the movies, on television or in person, just about everyone is familiar with the ghostly green images portrayed by night vision equipment that helps humans see in the dark. This is relatively new technology for mankind, but many animals solved the dilemma of how to see in the dark…

You know talk is getting serious around the dinner table when a friend asks to see your alcohol burning pack stove.

Hunters took more mule deer and fewer white-tailed deer in 2018 compared to 2017, while the elk harvest was similar between the two years — dropping by less than 2 percent from 2017 to 2018.

One December day Barb suggested we try cross-country skiing.