IT WAS DAYLIGHT on the river, but I was not on a river. This was strange since I was on a fishing trip of sorts.… Continue reading
OUTSIDE SPECIAL INTERESTS are threatening to tie up more Clallam County trust lands. These lands produce revenue that pays for county services. The Elwha Watershed… Continue reading
ONCE UPON A time, anthropologists somehow determined that the Eskimos have 50 different words for snow. Fishing guides and loggers have at least that many… Continue reading
IT WAS A dark and stormy night. Inside the cabin, the wood stove glowed red with venison stew simmering, fresh-baked biscuits and a whistling tea… Continue reading
THANK YOU FOR reading this. Writing our nation’s only wilderness gossip column is not easy. It took me years to become an overnight success with… Continue reading
OCTOBER MARKED ONE year since the Recompete initiative started, with the goal of creating and connecting people to living-wage jobs on the North Olympic Peninsula.… Continue reading
MAYBE YOU’VE HAD one of those days. You wake up in the morning and everything hurts. None of your body parts seem to work. You… Continue reading
WHO SAYS THERE’S no good news? Lately, the co-managers of our natural resources have stumbled upon a unique method of dealing with a devastating threat… Continue reading
THIS TIME OF year brings back a lot of memories. These can be triggered by the smell of a driftwood fire on a river- bank,… Continue reading
I WON’T BORE you, dear reader(s), with the petty details of my ill-fated, underfunded hunt for Bigfoot that’s led to so much trouble. I could… Continue reading
WHAT DOES AFFORDING diapers have to do with employment? If you need childcare, something seemingly as simple as providing diapers can have a huge impact… Continue reading
THIS IS THE season of one of the greatest migrations on Earth happening right now. We’ve all heard of the epic flights of migrating waterfowl… Continue reading
OPENING DAY. IT’S a day when anything can happen. I was hoping, if for only a brief moment at sunrise, that this season could be… Continue reading
THIS MUST BE the best autumn weather in years. And just when you thought it couldn’t get any better, it did with the opening of… Continue reading
FALL MUST BE my favorite time of year. Could be because I like the rain? People who love rain are called Pluviophiles or Mossbacks, or… Continue reading
IF YOU’VE HEARD that the North Olympic Peninsula is receiving funding through the Recompete grant and aren’t quite sure what it means, you’re not alone.… Continue reading
IN SEPTEMBER OF 1890, Pvt. Harry Fisher, a member of Lt. Joseph P. O’Neil’s U.S. Army expedition that had been sent to map the interior… Continue reading
