Outdoors

Leadbetter Point: Birdwatching opportunities par excellence!

Many birds make the Willapa National Wildlife Refuge’s area at Leadbetter their winter home and many species migrate…

Outdoors

Columbia River sport fishery remains open for fall Chinook

ILWACO — The mainstem Columbia River from Buoy 10 upstream to Warrior Rock will remain open for retention…

Outdoors

Northwest Nature Notes: To nourish love, feed the birds

The cup of milk ready to go in the microwave just hit the floor. The phone is ringing…

Outdoors

States extend Buoy 10 fishing; coho, steelhead passage slow

A lower than expected harvest of Chinook salmon at the Columbia River mouth prompted the two-state Columbia River…

Outdoors

Fish & Feathers: Late summer includes hunting east side for doves, plus local tuna

Our group just returned from the east side of the mountains — Toppenish, Granger and Sunnyside — where…

Outdoors

Greenhead Slough: Habitat for birds and other wildlife

In 2014 the Willapa National Wildlife Refuge completed the restoration of Greenhead Slough, which since then has benefited…

Outdoors

WSU researcher finds, mysteriously, chum salmon less sensitive to toxic stormwater than coho

In the same toxic stormwater brew that kills coho salmon in less than three hours, their chum cousins…

Outdoors

Notices coming after data breach

OLYMPIA — Buyers of Washington state hunting and fishing licenses whose personal information may have been compromised by…

Life

Editor’s Notebook: Have the humpbacks forgiven us our trespasses?

Whales pirouetting out of the Columbia like Winnebago-size trout make some of my friends think of Moses and…

Life

Birdwatching: Visit our beach now to observe some of earth’s best travelers

Fall migration is officially underway in my mind, because the sooty shearwaters are on the move. I observed…

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