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.”
Libby Rod and Gun Club: Feb. 4 Scattergun Scores
Libby Scatterguns Scores
Looking for lunch: Downy Woodpecker
A female downy woodpecker searches for food recently in a dead larch tree near Pipe Creek.
Raise, release program; planned for May 15
Landowners interested in raising and releasing ring-necked pheasants this year through the state Upland Game Bird Enhancement Program have until May 15 to subm…
Land designated for caribou habitat
After weeks of study and consultation, Boundary County Commissioners invoked a federal law to be included as participants in the process currently underway to …
Forum on Forest Draft Plan Tuesday
The first of four public forums for comment on the U.S. Forest Service’s Draft Forest Plan and Draft Environmental Impact Statement (DEIS) for the Kootenai National Forest is 4 to 7 p.m. Tuesday at the Ponderosa Ro…
So far, mild winter is assisting Weed District's insect program
Lincoln County residents may think the mild winter thus far just means less snow-shoveling, but that’s only one of the benefits, as the Lincoln County Weed Dis…
Big Winner
Rusty DeShazer was the winner of the Libby Sports Center Christmas giveaway. DeShazer won a Remington model 870, 12-gauge shotgun.
Day of shooting
The Libby Rod and Gun Club and its Scattergun Committee on Saturday sponsored its annual Trap and Skeet League registration at the Libby Shooting Complex Clubh…
At home in Libby, the 'City of Eagles'
Second in size of North American birds of prey only to the California Condor,
Resident reports run-in with wolf pack
Reports of wolf sightings and tracks have been circulating throughout Northwest Montana recently, avid hunters and Montanans are claiming to have seen more wolves than they have seen before.
Road closures narrowed
DNA report: Fatal shot first hit grizzly
FWP seeks elk panel members
Montana Fish, Wildlife & Parks is seeking up to 12 individuals to serve on a working group charged with developing elk management options in areas where the transmission of brucellosis between elk and livestock is …
On Nat Geo WILD
A film made by a group of graduates of Montana State University’s Science and Natural Filmmaking program has led off National Geographic’s second annual Big Ca…
Benefield Bags Big Buck
Cody Benefield, 15, bagged a 4-by-4 whitetail with a 16-inch spread on the last morning of the hunting season using the .25-06 his grandfather, Don Benefield, …