Outdoors

Bouy 10 reopens for Chinook, coho fishing

ILWACO — The Lower Columbia River below Bonneville Dam is open for additional areas for recreational salmon fishing…

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Birding: How to find nests and identify them

Autumn has arrived. Nesting season is over, and the colorful leaves of fall are beginning to cover the…

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Fall brings pheasant-hunting traditions to life

CHINOOK — The fall hunting season has started for a colorful game bird from China that tastes like…

Outdoors

Birding: Photos feature ‘Bathing Beauties 2022’

In keeping with looking after our feathered friends throughout the year this article features our bathing beauties of…

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Plant winter-flowering shrubs for a dash of color

Winter-flowering shrubs should be used far more often in western Washington. Our gray, overcast winter weather can be…

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WSU Master Gardener Workshops: October and November

LONGVIEW — On Tuesdays at noon WSU Master Gardeners present weekly online free programs, and there also are…

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Birding: Feeding and caring for wild birds though the seasons

From time-to-time Chinook Observer readers ask me for an article on a particular topic or offer suggestions that…

Life

‘Ask a Master Gardener’ Plant Clinic and Information Center Sept. 24

WSU Master Gardeners of Pacific County are sponsoring our final summer Plant Clinic and Information Center at the…

Life

Plant winter cover crops now to prepare soil for next year’s vegetable garden

CORVALLIS — No one wants to think of harvest’s end as the vegetable garden reaches peak, but now’s…

Outdoors

Birding: Out and about on the Peninsula

Occasionally, I make a trip that I call out and about. It involves driving a circuit to all…

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