Boating Safety Tips for Pend Oreille and Priest Lakes
Coast Guard inspectors found ten boats on Pend Oreille in violation of safety or regulatory rules. The article promotes a free fall Boat Safety and Seamanship course at the Priest River Boat Club and outlines required safety gear and inspection outcomes.
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Bonner County
Pend Oreille
Priest Lakes
Coast Guard
Idaho
Coast Guard Auxiliary
Priest River Boat Club
Mysis Shrimp Boom Affects Lake Pend Oreille Kokanee
Mysis shrimp numbers in Lake Pend Oreille have risen dramatically over two years, while zooplankton drops may threaten kokanee food supply. A limnologist warned about potential food competition as Mysis prey on plankton, with kokanee needing years of plankton feeding to reach a size for Mysis consumption.
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Dave Finkelnburg
Lake
Pend Oreille
Lake Pend Oreille
Priest Lake
Here
Kootenay Lake
British Columbia
Hope Area Sportsmen’s Club
Hope School
Bruce Reiman
Reiman
Bert
Bowler
EFG
Corps of Engineers
Reimans
Commissioners Set 1976 Mourning Dove Season Dates
In a telephone conference last week Fish and Game Commissioners set the 1976 mourning dove season dates. The season opens September 1 and runs through September 19 in all counties. A bag limit of 10 doves with a possession limit of 20 after day one was approved. Shooting hours run from half an hour before sunrise to sunset.
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Fish and Game
Fish and Game Commission August meeting agenda summary
The Idaho Fish and Game Commission will hold a two day meeting at the Department of Fish and Game headquarters in Boise beginning at 9 a.m. August 12. A public hearing is set for 1:30 p.m. Thursday to discuss upland game bird and trapping seasons and the potential framework for 1976-77 waterfowl seasons. The department will present a financial report and the steelhead run status with recommendations for the season.
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Fish and Game Commission
Department of Fish and Game
Boise
IFG Probes Fish Kill at Rapid River Hatchery
About 500000 spring chinook fingerlings died at Rapid River Hatchery near Riggins. The Idaho Department of Fish and Game ordered water and fish tests to determine the cause. Samples were sent to Boise and the University of Idaho for analysis. Hatchery superintendent Evan Parrish described stressed fish before the mass die off. The remaining fish in the pond, which holds roughly 2.3 million, were reported as fine.
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Rapid River
Riggins
Department of Fish and Game
Boise
University of Idaho
Evan Parrish
Parrish
Area residents win antlerless and antelope hunt permits
Regional staff announced August 2 drawing results for controlled hunts. Sandpoint resident Brett Peterson drew one of three moose permits for Bonner and Boundary counties. Antelope permits went to nine locals including three from Hope, three from Samuels, and four from Sandpoint, with other area hunters drawing sheep and ram permits.
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Manl
McNee
Sandpoint
Brett Peterson
Bonner
Boundary
Peterson
Idaho
Hope Area
Samuels
Sand Point
Darius Williams
Lloyd Robinson
Hope Area Sportsmen Near Incorporation Heads Toward State Status
By unanimous vote, the Hope Area Sportsman's Club revised its articles of incorporation drawn by Cecil McCracken, moving toward formal organization under state law. The meeting covered lake study updates and concerns over lake shore scum and pollutant inflow from the Clark Fork River.
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Hope Area
Sportsmen Plan Work Party At Bonner County Fairgrounds
Bonner County Sportsmen's Association members will complete a new bear cage at the Bonner County Fairgrounds wildlife exhibit during a 6 30 pm work party tomorrow. The display, open Aug 25 through 28, will feature live trapping by Keith Hawn and animal planning with Leo Black.
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Bonner County
Sportsmen's Association
Bonner County Fairgrounds
Fairgrounds
Leo Hadley
Leo Black
Keith Hawn
Elmer Nikkola
Nikkola
Bonner County Outdoors Snakes Nourish Garden While People Fear Them
In Bonner County garter snakes thrive in Hope yard rock walls and feed on slugs and insects. The author argues against killing snakes, noting their beneficial role in the ecosystem and explaining that garter snakes are the local species Thamnophis with live births and limited reproduction.
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Dave Finkelnburg
Bonner County
U.S
Terrian
Rocky Mountain
Hope
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Jim Collins
Priest River
Collins
FFG
Roman
IFG
Jack McNeel
Pete Weatherford, Benjamin Harris and
Stephen Murphy
Dwain
Sandra Babb
Dick Metz
John Bottcher
Samuel Bruder
Irven Gray
Horace Hart
Bert Bowler
Bruce Berman
Clark Fork
Jub
Lloyd Pritchett
Louisiana Pacific
Barry Kendall
Kendall
Wisconsin
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