Hunting Exotic Wildlife in Our Homes

When I was a kid in East Wenatchee and Boise, shooting rats at the dump was great fun – and appreciated. Landfills are now more carefully managed. Rats have found new homes. Times have changed If you are reading this, you probably have been reading other things in...

Upper Columbia Steelhead Troubles

If you are a semi-regular with this weekly peek into the outdoors, you are certainly aware that Homey Kirk Johnson and I, along with various and sundry close family, have a thing for the steelhead of fall – especially on the Upper Columbia. Thus it has been that each...

Finally – Deer Season

It was one of those Washington state personalized license plates you wish you had imagined first. I’ve been thinking about it because this is the weekend for which it was created. The weekend before us is the biggest opening weekend among the various openers for...

Here’s to More Outdoor Schools

You probably know how much I appreciate the Roslyn Outdoor School (now Washington Outdoor School), and the work KEEN (Kittitas Environmental Education Network) has done to bring real outdoor education to kids in the Lower Valley at Helen McCabe Park. You certainly...