Michael Wright

Spokane

Outdoors Editor at The Spokesman-Review

Outdoors @SpokesmanReview. Former @bozchron editor. Idaho’s best dairy product (2G). Go Cubs. My email newsletter appears more often than my tweets. Link below.

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Articles

Open house planned on future of Mount Spokane State Park

1 week ago | thenewstribune.com | Michael Wright

Washington State Parks officials are eyeing a pair of options for the future of their largest state park. The Washington State Parks and Recreation Commission announced Friday that it is considering two proposals as part of the 20-year master plan for Mount Spokane State Park. One is dubbed "Community Mountain," which focuses on improving and maintaining existing facilities and trails at the 12,444-acre park in the southern Selkirk Mountains.
Open house planned on future of Mount Spokane State Park

1 week ago | spokesman.com | Michael Wright

Washington State Parks officials is eyeing a pair of options for the future of its largest state park. The Washington State Parks and Recreation Commission announced Friday that it is considering two proposals as part of the 20-year master plan for Mount Spokane State Park. One is dubbed “Community Mountain,” which focuses on improving and maintaining existing facilities and trails at the 12,444-acre park in the southern Selkirk Mountains.
Chasing Long Lake's toothy and tasty predators

1 week ago | spokesman.com | Michael Wright

Your first walleye shouldn’t be huge. That’s not to say it should be small. It should put up a decent fight and be worth taking home. It just shouldn’t be big enough to inspire unreasonable expectations. You should probably also catch it when you’re young, in those blissful years before you understand the inner workings of a mortgage. My first walleye broke both of these rules. I caught it on Long Lake on a recent Wednesday as a 32-year-old with a general understanding of amortization schedules.
Loon Lake kokanee crash a mystery

1 week ago | thenewstribune.com | Michael Wright

Bill Baker has a mystery on his hands. The supply of kokanee salmon in Loon Lake has crashed in recent years, turning the popular fishery north of Spokane into a bit of a disappointment. Instead of finding large numbers of landlocked salmon in the 10- to 12-inch range, anglers are finding small numbers of really big fish - a sign that some entire age classes of kokes have disappeared.
Creek repair: North Idaho conservationists work to fix trout habitat near Montana border

1 week ago | belgrade-news.com | Michael Wright

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Loon Lake kokanee crash a mystery

1 week ago | spokesman.com | Michael Wright

Bill Baker has a mystery on his hands. The supply of kokanee salmon in Loon Lake has crashed in recent years, turning the popular fishery north of Spokane into a bit of a disappointment. Instead of finding large numbers of landlocked salmon in the 10- to 12-inch range, anglers are finding small numbers of really big fish – a sign that some entire age classes of kokes have disappeared.
Creek repair: North Idaho conservationists work to fix trout habitat near Montana border

1 week ago | fairfieldsuntimes.com | Michael Wright

MURRAY, Idaho — A century ago, there was a dredge floating in Prichard Creek near the Idaho-Montana border. It was six stories high, 44 feet wide, 106 feet long. An arm hanging off the back scratched at the earth around the clock for nine years, from 1917 to 1926. In that time, it turned over five miles of the Prichard Creek floodplain. It also left behind lasting damage. Waste rock moved by the dredge sits in large mounds near Murray, a strange moonscape interspersed with spring-fed ponds.
Creek repair: North Idaho conservationists work to fix trout habitat near Montana border

1 week ago | bozemandailychronicle.com | Michael Wright

MURRAY, Idaho — A century ago, there was a dredge floating in Prichard Creek near the Idaho-Montana border. It was six stories high, 44 feet wide, 106 feet long. An arm hanging off the back scratched at the earth around the clock for nine years, from 1917 to 1926. In that time, it turned over five miles of the Prichard Creek floodplain. It also left behind lasting damage. Waste rock moved by the dredge sits in large mounds near Murray, a strange moonscape interspersed with spring-fed ponds.
Fight over public lands sale revived

1 week ago | spokesman.com | Michael Wright

The fight over the sale of federal public lands in the West has been revived after the release of a fresh GOP proposal to sell millions of acres. The proposal from Utah Republican Sen. Mike Lee would mandate the sale of between 2 million and 3 million acres across 11 Western states, including Idaho and Washington. The proposal comes in the form of a draft provision of Senate Republicans’ budget reconciliation bill.
After court ruling, plans for Panhandle Bike Ranch on hold

2 weeks ago | spokesman.com | Michael Wright

SAGLE, Idaho – A series of mountain bike trails weaves through a steep piece of forest at the Panhandle Bike Ranch. There are flow trails with hairpin turns and rolling bumps. There are gaps, jumps and tall wooden platforms to ride off. There’s also a long beginner trail called First Rodeo that a 4-year-old recently cruised down with ease. At the bottom, there’s a spacious parking lot and two shuttle trucks specially designed to haul riders and their bikes uphill.