Outdoors

Recreational crabbing remains open in Willapa Bay and Columbia River, but coast is closed

OLYMPIA — Effective Dec. 9, recreational Dungeness crab fisheries on the Washington coast south of the Queets River…

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Birding: Glittering jewels light up the darkness of winter

First, a “big thank you” to the readers of this column who have been sending me photos, observations…

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Even razor clams on remote Olympic Coast can’t escape plastics

OLYMPIC COAST — Portland State University researchers and their collaborators at the Quinault Indian Nation and Oregon State…

Life

Bringing back a tasty old friend: Native Washington garlic

Editor’s Note Inchelium Red garlic is available from several online sources — searchable on Google — including tinyurl.com/Native-Garlic-Source.…

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Birding: Becoming a fixture or still a rarity? Tropical kingbird

A large yellow-bellied flycatcher with a rather large bill, yellow breast and greenish back has been visiting the…

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Take one more go at the garden before retiring for winter

CORVALLIS — We’re running right into the holidays, daylight is in short supply and rain comes down days…

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Birding: There is nothing so lovely as a tree

There is nothing so lovely as a tree especially if it is decorated with a flock of birds,…

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What’s the real story? Garden myths debunked

CORVALLIS — Reality can get skewed when there are so many sources of information — books, magazines, newspapers,…

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Mushroom hunters: Enjoy Peninsula’s fungi abundance

LONG BEACH — The rain was coming in steady sheets for several hours before they started their search.…

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Birding: The band-tailed pigeon: Fast on the wing

When I first began coming to the Long Beach Peninsula in the 1970s one of my bucket list…

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