Outdoors
What's there to do in the great outdoors? Here we've got a bevy of local outdoor activities and destinations to explore.
Heritage Museum seeks copies of old photos; readies for May 18 opening
The museum opens for the season at 10 a.m. Saturday, May 18, with the annual “Opening Day Celebration.”
Wildlife Recapture gets national contract
Wildlife Recapture, a local taxidermist studio co-owned by two Libby men, has received a contract from a national sporting goods chain that will bring both exp…
Online registration for wolf trapping in area, Region 1
Online registration is now open for wolf trapper certification classes in northwest Montana. Certification is required in order to use a wolf license to trap wolves. The classes will be held:
Grouse season begins Sunday
Grouse season opens this Sunday, Sept. 1, in Lincoln County, and for many hunters it’s a bridge to deer and elk seasons.
Bailey wins Scatterguns' Ironman competition
Every marksman excels in one event, but then there are those who excel at all shotgun events, and that person for the Libby Scatterguns is Tom Bailey.
Grizzly bear is released in Cabinets
Bear Biologist Wayne Kasworm of the U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service and his crews have released another young male grizzly bear in the Cabinet Mountains just west…
Cowboy, 82, says rodeos keep him going
For 76 years, Charlie Hahnkamp has sat tall in the saddle, just like he did last weekend as a pickup cowboy during the Kootenai River Rodeo.
Men in kilts: Highland Games are scheduled for this weekend
The traditional Highland Games have undergone centuries of diversification. Originally a test by King Malcolm III, of Scotland, to find his strongest and fastest man later became a competition among nations that in…
Troy archery event ends in a shootout
The Troy Archery Club held its first 3-D shoot of the year the weekend of June 22 and 23, and it ended in a shootout.
Linehan receives prestigious Orvis award
Imagine fly fishing for a living.
Rescue volunteers receive field training
Lincoln County is now backed by 15 new certified members of the Search and Rescue Team. Members for the David Thompson and Can Am rescue teams were registered …
Monitoring the white sturgeon comeback
Longtime residents of Lincoln County may remember fishing for white sturgeon in the Kootenai River prior to construction of Libby Dam. Even in the late 1960s …
Youth Trap Shooters
The young SCTP shooters with their coaches and members of the Libby Scatterguns who helped with the event.
Libby hosts scholastic clay-shooting competition at complex
Kalispell shooter Nic Cramer led a field of 17 youth shotgun shooters and won the Western Regional Championship Scholastic Clay Target Program competition held…
Hunters prepare for bear season
Hunters experiencing withdrawal after a long winter will be able to get their fix as black bear hunting begins Monday.
Scatterguns wrap up another season
Another Lincoln County trap and skeet winter league is in the books, and for the third consecutive year a record number of shooters competed.