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It was one of those impromptu off-Reecer Creek meetings of the Reecer Creek Rod, Gun, Working Dog & Outdoor Think Tank Benevolent Association. (As you recall, such meetings happen whenever two or more gather in the name of “outdoors.”) The primary agenda item...

A week from tonight - August 21 - two of my outdoor heroes will be down the Yakima River at Canyon River Lodge. The two days following that – next weekend – archery nuts and bow hunters will be half a mile further down the Canyon participating in a steep and tough...

It was another off-Reecer Creek meeting of the Reecer Creek Rod, Gun, Working Dog & Outdoor Think Tank Benevolent Association. The primary agenda item was “The Big One,” a la last week’s headline in this rag about our coming earthquake adventure. I was suggesting...

If you have seen or heard any print, visual or audio media in the past couple weeks, you know something about the effects of this Northwest summer’s heat and drought on our fish, and our fishing. You have likely seen the photos and video of dying sturgeon on the...

Dr. Jon Boyum, MD and Honorary Homey, invited his dad, Homey Bill Boyum, and me to join him in Alaska for a research project involving sockeye salmon on the Kenai River. I thought we were going to count the sockeye salmon as they went up the Kenai, but I wasn’t sure –...

At dusk on Sunday evening I was distracted from my weeding – and swatting mosquitos – in the garden behind Evolutionary Abode. It was one of those familiar sounds that have the ability to sweep us away. The periodic raspy wing buzz of that nighthawk’s insect hunt took...