Outdoors
How many scorpions did you say? London Zoo does critter count
Photo By: AP Photo
How do you count scorpions? Very gingerly, it turns out.
A meerkat investigates a clipboard during the annual animal count at Britain’s London Zoo on Thursday.
Woods lore workshop to be held at Twin Falls park
 Learn how Native Americans and early European settlers tracked game, made use of forest plants for food and medicine, and used other skills that allowed them to live close to nature during the 1700s in a Tracking and Woods Lore Workshop at Twin Falls Resort State Park, Jan. 16-18.
By the dawn's early light
Horticulture photographer inspired by morning sun
Somewhere in northern New Mexico is a quarry named for Rob Cardillo, who was on track for a successful career in paleontology after college. But for a twist here and a turn there, he might happily have ended up harvesting dinosaur bones for a living.
Mercury advisory issued for Summersville Lake fish
Consumption advisories have been issued for black bass, walleye and flathead catfish caught at Summersville Lake because of mercury concerns.
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    • Hunting & Fishing
    Sitting pretty
    Paul Meyer has killed dozens of deer throughout West Virginia, but only this year did he locate the ideal hunting blind - his living room.
    Hatchery production 'above average,' DNR says
    West Virginia's state-owned fish hatcheries didn't grow as many walleye or hybrid striped bass last year, but production of other popular game fish compensated for the shortfall.
    No sweat
    West Virginia's hunters killed fewer turkeys and deer this year than they did last year, but that doesn't worry the state's top wildlife official.
    Stocked trout 'smaller than usual'
    Notice to West Virginia trout fishermen: Downsize your expectations this year.
    That dog hunts?
    PRIOR LAKE, Minn. - A rooster pheasant winged high overhead in the cobalt sky, several blasts from a shotgun interrupted its flight and the bird somersaulted into thick grass.
    John McCoy
    Quake swarm creates fears of apocalypse
    Maybe I've been watching too many doomsday documentaries. Then again, maybe Yellowstone National Park really is getting ready to blow up.
    Outdoors will miss Bill Riley
    West Virginia's sporting community lost a dear friend recently when Bill Riley passed away.
    Scott Shalaway
    Owl pairs nest now, get jump on spring
    On the afternoon of Dec. 26, the thermometer on the back porch read 73 degrees. Carolina wrens, cardinals and white-throated sparrows sang as if spring had replaced winter.
    Ski Report
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    Open / Past 48 Hours: 4in. / Primary: Machine Groomed / Base Depth: 50in....
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    Open / Past 48 Hours: 11in. / Primary: Packed Powder / Base Depth: 36in....
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    Open / Past 48 Hours: 10in. / Primary: Powder / Base Depth: 36in....
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