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Buckle up. We are now one week away from Free Fishing Weekend. This is important, because on June 6 and 7, no license will be required to fish or shellfish in any open waters in the state. Nor will vehicle use permits be required during the weekend to park at DFW’s...

What started the flashbacks was a conversation at a recent Kittitas County Field and Stream Club Board Meeting. You know, no doubt, that the club is again sending a couple youngsters to the Washington State Youth Conservation Camp on Orcas Island. The lively...

Tuesday morning, somewhere around 3:30, Homey Kirk Johnson, his sons-in-law Ben and Morgan, and I met up with new friends Mike and Paul at the door of Captain Don Davenport’s Ocean Sportfishing (www.oceansportfishing.com) office on the waterfront in Westport. We would...

When I was a kid, millions of us were in NRA (National Rifle Association) certified shooting programs. Every week, through match seasons over several years, The Old Man dragged me and my kid brothers to the NRA range in East Wenatchee. There, with most of our friends,...

About this time every year, one or another of the lonesome, pleading for love, bird rituals gets under someone’s skin. Over the past few springs, it has mostly been the persistent drumming of the northern flicker (Colaptes auratus, a.k.a. the red shafted flicker)....

Wednesday, April 15, was opening day of spring turkey hunting season here in Paradise. Sometime that morning, I caught an email from one of my local heroes, Aaron Kuntz. Aaron and four-and-a-half-year-old Sophia had gone turkey hunting. His story took me on a rich...