Thursday, January 23, 2025

Mayflies make good trout patterns and they're indicators of healthy water

If you’ve ever wondered about the water quality in a stream, river or lake you are fishing, just ask a mayfly.
COEUR D'ALENE PRESS | UPDATED 4 YEARS, 10 MONTHS AGO

Sno-bikes are latest winter craze

There’s a new electricity in the winter air. Snow-churning, tree-dodging, modified machines called snowbikes are supplying the spark.
BONNER COUNTY DAILY BEE | UPDATED 4 YEARS, 11 MONTHS AGO

Wilds of Wyoming appealed to early 1900s Major League Baseball stars

Spending the entire winter trapping in Wyoming’s remote Thorofare Valley — just southeast of Yellowstone National Park — produced a big payday for a young Indiana man in 1918.
BONNER COUNTY DAILY BEE | UPDATED 5 YEARS AGO

Sno-bikes are the newest craze in the snowy hills Ponderay, Idaho company pioneered the product

There’s a new electricity in the winter air. Snow-churning, tree-dodging, modified machines called snowbikes are supplying the spark.
COEUR D'ALENE PRESS | UPDATED 5 YEARS AGO

Wilds of Wyoming appealed to early 1900s Major League Baseball stars

Spending the entire winter trapping in Wyoming’s remote Thorofare Valley — just southeast of Yellowstone National Park — produced a big payday for a young Indiana man in 1918.
COEUR D'ALENE PRESS | UPDATED 5 YEARS AGO

What broken wolf teeth tell of predator, prey relationships

This may be a tale that only dentists can appreciate, but the teeth of dead Yellowstone wolves are helping scientists understand the life of predators more than 11,000 years ago.
BONNER COUNTY DAILY BEE | UPDATED 5 YEARS, 2 MONTHS AGO

Lewistown builder crafts wheelchair-accessible drift boat

Hanging on the wall in Brett Nienhuis’ living room are three 8-inch-by-12-inch photos of an angler in a wheelchair reeling in a fish from a drift boat — an aluminum boat that Nienhuis built in his Lewistown, Mont., shop.
COEUR D'ALENE PRESS | UPDATED 5 YEARS, 3 MONTHS AGO

What broken wolf teeth tell about predator and prey relationships

This may be a tale that only dentists can appreciate, but the teeth of dead Yellowstone wolves are helping scientists understand the life of predators more than 11,000 years ago.
COEUR D'ALENE PRESS | UPDATED 5 YEARS, 3 MONTHS AGO

Elk school hunters of all species

Elk are crafty creatures. Just ask any elk hunter.
BONNER COUNTY DAILY BEE | UPDATED 5 YEARS, 5 MONTHS AGO

Nature's hiding experts school hunters of all species

Elk are crafty creatures. Just ask any elk hunter.
COEUR D'ALENE PRESS | UPDATED 5 YEARS, 5 MONTHS AGO

Ledge geyser roars to life after three years of quiet

Three years after its last eruption, Ledge geyser in Yellowstone National Park roared back to life on April 28.
BONNER COUNTY DAILY BEE | UPDATED 5 YEARS, 6 MONTHS AGO

Yellowstone's Ledge geyser roars to life after three years of quiet

Three years after its last eruption, Ledge geyser in Yellowstone National Park roared back to life on April 28.
COEUR D'ALENE PRESS | UPDATED 5 YEARS, 6 MONTHS AGO

Brown trout, sauger thriving together in Bighorn River

One of Montana’s premier trout fishing streams, the Bighorn River, could be poised for an excellent season provided nothing “really weird” happens with spring runoff.
COEUR D'ALENE PRESS | UPDATED 5 YEARS, 9 MONTHS AGO

Tribes question buffalo hunt suspension

Some tribal officials questioned temporarily suspending their treaty rights at the request of Montana Fish, Wildlife and Parks to support a proposed bison hunting closure north of West Yellowstone. Others backed the idea.
BONNER COUNTY DAILY BEE | UPDATED 6 YEARS, 1 MONTH AGO

Reflecting on the 40 years since wolves reintroduced in Yellowstone

More than 40 years ago a young Mark Boyce landed his first teaching job at the University of Wyoming’s Department of Zoology and Physiology.
BONNER COUNTY DAILY BEE | UPDATED 6 YEARS, 2 MONTHS AGO

Reflecting on 40 years since wolves were reintroduced in Yellowstone

More than 40 years ago a young Mark Boyce landed his first teaching job at the University of Wyoming’s Department of Zoology and Physiology.
COEUR D'ALENE PRESS | UPDATED 6 YEARS, 2 MONTHS AGO

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At the Autry Museum of the American West in Los Angeles, the collection of 2,400 firearms is a touchy subject among staffers.
COEUR D'ALENE PRESS | UPDATED 6 YEARS, 6 MONTHS AGO

Montana man takes up legendary relative's gun making

Distant relative of a legendary gun maker takes up ancestor's craft
COEUR D'ALENE PRESS | UPDATED 8 YEARS, 1 MONTH AGO