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States set seasons for spring Chinook, sturgeon, smelt in Columbia River Basin

VANCOUVER — Anticipating a return of 299,200 adult spring Chinook salmon, fishery managers from Washington and Oregon today…

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Garden Mind: A beginner gardener wants to eat. Now what?

A friend writes about getting a small plot in a community garden, and he wants to know how…

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Birdwatching Western snowy plover of the Willapa National Wildlife Refuge

Have you ever seen what appears to be a small, pale puffball on the beach? If so, you…

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Elk hoof disease spreads beyond SW Washington

OLYMPIA — A disease that has been killing elk in Pacific County and elsewhere in Southwest Washington appears…

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Meeting called on siting gene bank for wild steelhead on Columbia River

OLYMPIA — State fish managers will hold a public meeting Jan. 21 in Cathlamet to discuss two options…

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Fish & Feathers: Eastern WA bird hunt comes with frigid temps

We knew we couldn’t stay up late enough to bring in the new year properly, so instead we…

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Birdwatching: Charismatic common goldeneye ducks are known as ‘the whistler’

If you are on the shore of a lake or pond or even at the Ilwaco harbor and…

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A big year for Columbia Estuary Christmas Bird Count

Birders with the 36th annual Columbia Estuary Christmas Bird Count had a big day. The 22 volunteers who…

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Northwest Nature Log: Celebrating the first bird of 2016

The morning of Jan. 1, 2016, dawned blustery and cold — and dark. Most of the Peninsula was…

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Trio of turtles treated at Oregon Coast Aquarium

NEWPORT — A very mature 63-pound male olive ridley sea turtle, Lepidochelys olivacea, stranded just south of Long…

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