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Birding: Higher tides mean more exciting raptor visits on Willapa Bay wetlands

This is the story of the excitement on one day during the higher tides of February. As the…

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Projections of low spring Chinook returns limit Columbia River fishing seasons

VANCOUVER, Wash. — Fishery managers from Washington and Oregon today approved a sport fishery for spring Chinook salmon…

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Birding: Great Backyard Bird Count IDs dozen of local species

The Great Backyard Bird Count, or GBBC as it is called, began in 1998. The Cornell Lab of…

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Birding: Hummingbirds and ‘cutie pies’

Some birds are downright cute! Black-capped chickadees, Anna’s hummingbirds, and dark-eyed juncos seem to me to be cute!…

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Coho 2019 forecast: Outstanding

COLUMBIA RIVER — More than 1 million adult coho salmon are expected along the Oregon coast and Columbia…

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Birding: Celebrate Willapa’s eight ‘birds of the night’

Owls are mainly birds of the night! They live in the magic and mystery of the darkness. J.K.…

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A rotten story: Forest decomposition

The woods can be pretty messy, with all of those leaves, branches, twigs and logs falling over and…

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Facing stone installation soon to start on lighthouse base

NORTH HEAD — Stone masons continue work on North Head Lighthouse restoration in Cape Disappointment State Park, aided…

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WDFW approves three-day razor clam dig beginning Feb. 1

OLYMPIA — Razor clam diggers can return to various ocean beaches (but not Long Beach/Ocean Park) for a…

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Birding: Kildeer — The bird of everywhere!

Lately, on my travels up and down the Peninsula, I see killdeer everywhere. They seem to have taken…

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