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As you have no doubt heard, our Pacific Northwest salmon forecasts are mixed this year – it will not be one of those years of plentiful salmon from spring through fall. Chinook numbers will be fairly good in certain places and during certain run times through the...

Tomorrow is the big day. You and yours are invited to the 17th Annual celebration of our shrub-steppe heritage. Between 7:30 a.m. and 1 p.m. there are no fewer than 13 one-hour-long field experience choices. There will be expert-led field trips, educational and...

So. What is a dream worth? And how long should it last, once you pay for it? These are the questions hunters across Paradise, Washington, and the U.S. are asking themselves about now. I don’t really know about those other places, but here in Paradise a dream can be...

The first osprey I ever really noticed was just off a little muddy lake in the middle of south central Wyoming’s Red Desert some decades ago. It was mid-summer and I was wandering the desert trying to convince some very nice antelope bucks that I wasn’t really out...

You gotta love spring. It was slow in arriving this year, but the signs are now all about us. This is, after all, the time when the fancy of a young man (or insect or bird or bee for that matter) turns to thoughts of making more. I see birds and insects pairing up and...

As I write this, I’m looking ahead to our Durr Road cleanup on Saturday (that would be tomorrow, as you see this). I’m wondering what – and how much – trash we will find out there this year. That wondering sent me back into the draft of “The Zeb Chronicles –...