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Outdoors

What's there to do in the great outdoors? Here we've got a bevy of local outdoor activities and destinations to explore.

Updated 3 days, 9 hours ago

High winds forecast Tuesday and Wednesday

MOSES LAKE — While the heavy rain, heavy snow and flooding is expected to stay north of the Columbia Basin, the Ba…

Updated 6 years, 2 months ago
More survival techniques for the great outdoors

Groups of deer hunters will head into the field this Saturday as the general deer season opens. Today we will continue with survival techniques.

Updated 6 years, 2 months ago
Survival techniques vital when hunting

The general deer season begins this Saturday, Oct. 12. This week we are covering some items to consider as hunting groups head for the field this first weekend.

Updated 6 years, 2 months ago
Safety is the main word

The big day is close. The general deer season will begin on Saturday, Oct. 12.

Updated 6 years, 2 months ago
How to prepare and cook a wild turkey

Two tagged turkeys were in back of the Ram, now what? My wild turkeys are skinned after a successful hunting trip. This year the procedure was changed a bit.

Updated 6 years, 2 months ago
Dave Vedder downs first turkey

Dave Vedder, a friend and book author, now lives in Wenatchee. He is a seasoned angler, specializing in salmon and steelhead, although he will go after anythin…

Updated 6 years, 2 months ago
Chasing turkey

Hunting wild turkeys has been an annual subject of this column. The fall general turkey season has been the target.

Updated 6 years, 2 months ago
2019 Okanogan County bear and cougar hunting prospects

This is another in a series of columns containing 2019 hunting prospects. Columbia Basin hunters pursuing black bear and cougar might want to travel north. Today we offer a condensed version of this year’s bear hun…

Updated 6 years, 2 months ago
2019 Elk hunting prospects

This is another in a series of columns containing 2019 hunting prospects. Today we offer a condensed version of this year’s elk hunting prospects for Grant and Adams counties, also known as District 5 by Fish and W…

Updated 6 years, 3 months ago
Deer prospects continued

Today we backtrack a bit and then continue with the prospects for hunting deer in the Columbia Basin.

Updated 6 years, 3 months ago
2019 deer hunting prospects in the Columbia Basin

This is the fourth of several columns containing 2019 hunting prospects.

Updated 6 years, 3 months ago
2019 hunting prospects continued

This is the third of several columns containing 2019 hunting prospects.

Updated 6 years, 3 months ago
2019 hunting prospects continued

This is the second of several columns containing 2019 hunting prospects.

Updated 6 years, 3 months ago
2019 hunting prospects

This is the first of several columns containing 2019 hunting prospects.

Updated 6 years, 3 months ago
The Game Transport Form will help local hunters

Page 94 of the Washington Big-Game 2019 Hunting Seasons & Regulations states: “Transporting game or portions of meat taken by somebody else (WAC 220-200-120): …

Updated 6 years, 3 months ago
First-hunt-of-the-year suggestions

There is a time when anglers and hunters can combine both consumptive sports in one day.