History

Getting around: We don’t realize how good we have it

Research asset You can get lost in early Southwest Washington settlement history at the Appelo Archives and Museum…

Outdoors

Tribes worried about Lower Columbia harvest

Tribes worried about Lower Columbia harvest PORTLAND — There is ongoing concern, particularly among Columbia River treaty tribes,…

Life

Low spring Chinook returns expected to again limit Columbia fishing seasons

PORTLAND — Fishery managers from Washington and Oregon on Wednesday approved a sport fishery for spring Chinook salmon…

Outdoors

Birding: The birds of spring are definitely on their way

Yesterday, my friend Susan and I saw 42 species of birds in Vancouver, Washington. Many were spring migrants.…

Outdoors

WDFW approves a four-day razor clam dig starting Thursday

LONG BEACH — Razor clam diggers can return to ocean beaches for four days of digging beginning Feb.…

Life

For the birds: Citizen scientists at work on behalf of swallows

Not long ago four of us, each a citizen scientist, ventured to Tarlatt of the South Bay Unit…

Life

Peninsula still has millions more clams to harvest

LONG BEACH — With a 2019-20 harvest quota of 5.2 million razor clams, there was little chance that…

Life

Birding: Tiny, beautiful visitor here in larger numbers than usual!

It all began when the rustic bunting came to town a few months ago. A tiny songbird belonging…

Life

WDFW sets tentative March and April clam digs

OLYMPIA — State shellfish managers have tentatively scheduled razor clam digs on ocean beaches for dates through April.…

Life

The bigfoot next door: Hundreds tell of encounters

Bigfoot Field Researchers Organization PACIFIC COUNTY — In 2002 the Chinook Observer’s Damian Mulinix, on one of his…

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