Idaho Fish and Game

Approximately 10 miles east of Boise, Idaho State Highway 21 cuts across the migration routes of thousands of mule deer and elk. In this area around Cervidae Peak, roughly 8,000-9,000 mule deer and 1,800-2,400 elk of the Boise River herds cross the increasingly busy highway twice each year during...

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To Emmett Walker, hunting is about ethics. It’s about more than that too, of course. For Walker, hunting is also about family, food, being outdoors, and getting so close to majestic animals that he can reach out and touch them. It’s simply a part of life, the way Walker has lived ever since he shot...

A western grebe has red eyes. They’re a bright, arresting red, firetruck red, the kind of red that makes you do a double-take and think, no, that can’t be right. Pitch black pupils sit bullseye-center. An imperial yellow beak pokes out just below. The rest of the bird is swathed in tuxedo-colored...

Scales and feathers. Water and air. Fish and, well, fowl. Yellowstone cutthroat trout and American white pelicans are an unlikely duo for conservation. They both inhabit the Blackfoot Reservoir, a sagebrush and sun-soaked angling and boating destination in southeast Idaho. Both the trout and...