Outdoors

Hunter Safety Class offered in Long Beach

LONG BEACH — The Long Beach Police Department will be conducting its annual Hunter Education Class. The class…

Life

Birding: Hutton’s vireo — another success on the hunt for a ‘life bird!’

You may remember the story I wrote about seeing my first marbled murrelet after many years of searching.…

Life

Extremely low morning tides this week

NOAA tides for Cape D LONG BEACH PENINSULA — Some of our area’s lowest tides of 2019 are…

Life

Birding: Home is where the heart Is

PENINSULA — The photos in this article illustrate the different types of homes that our feathered friends of…

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Silver Rush: Ocean salmon fishing season opens with mother lode of coho

ILWACO — The ocean recreational salmon fishing season opened Saturday with local charter fleets reporting aggressive fish and…

Life

Great coho season starts June 22 in Washington’s ocean waters

OLYMPIA — Sport anglers will have the opportunity to reel in salmon off the Washington coast starting Saturday,…

Life

Birding: Freshwater ponds nurture us all!

Freshwater ponds are communities that are generally full of wildlife. Many mammals, insects, amphibians and birds are all…

Life

Little otters explore Port of Chinook

A new river otter family is in residence at the Port of Chinook. Mama takes her babies for…

Life

An osprey, an eagle and a fish pole: One man’s encounter with wild beauty

Like most people raised in the Northwest, I have had some sort of contact with sports fishing nearly…

Life

Barbless hooks didn’t help fish survival; Chinook returns awful

As of June 1, it is no longer mandatory to use barbless hooks to fish for salmon, steelhead…

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