
Patrick Durkin: Long hours in a treestand pays off on Idaho elk hunt
What do you say to convince yourself to stick with a treestand where you haven’t seen an elk after 11 hunts totaling 50 hours the past 5½ days?
Based on 55 years of bowhunting
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What do you say to convince yourself to stick with a treestand where you haven’t seen an elk after 11 hunts totaling 50 hours the past 5½ days?
Based on 55 years of bowhunting

The island was home to a small band of elk during the fall week I was there as a guest writer, and in the evening, you could hear elk bugle as they ventured up the

Idaho has a new certified weight state record northern pike after Hayden Lake in the northern part of the state produced the fish on March 21, 2023.
The new record fish, caught by angler

The Silver Creek area, which attracted luminaries such as Ernest Hemingway in the 1940s, also is a prime spot for birders and nature enthusiasts.

Idaho boy was injured last month when he checked one out with his dog on federally-owned land about 500 yards from his house on the outskirts of the small city of Pocatello. His Labrador retriever

Since coming under the protection of the Endangered Species Act, grizzlies have steadily expanded their habitat outward from the population’s core in Yellowstone National Park.

Water plunging from the dam’s spillways creates high levels of dissolved gas, which has the potential to harm or kill fish.

About 50 pronghorn died near Payette in mid-January, and before that, seven elk died in the Boise foothills.

Some who feed the hummingbirds say they haven’t spotted one since mid-December and last reported sighting was Jan. 2
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