SEPTEMBER IS NATIONAL Disaster Preparedness Month. It’s time to raise awareness about the importance of preparing for disasters and emergencies. This year’s theme for disaster… Continue reading
1890 WAS A good time to be on the Olympic Peninsula. That was before the coming of the railroads and the industrial age that slaughtered… Continue reading
IT WAS ANOTHER tough week in the news. We almost didn’t need a bombshell press release from Olympic National Park to ruin our weekend with… Continue reading
SEPTEMBER IS THE season of harvest, when we gather the fruits of our labors. It is the realization of a dream to have a small… Continue reading
BY NOW, I think we’ve all had it up to here with people complaining about the rain. That’s crazy. Psychologists have finally identified this chronic… Continue reading
YOU KNOW LIGHTNING’S getting closer when you feel the thunder in your bones. That’s how close it got during the recent storm that battered the… Continue reading
WITH THE MIRACLE of climate change, people living in the southern states of this great experiment in democracy we call America are bailing from their… Continue reading
AS GOODWILL AMBASSADORS of the tourist industry, it is our civic duty to share our precious local knowledge of the Olympic Peninsula with our foreign… Continue reading
WITH THE RECENT spell of rainy weather, firewood fever has hit the land. It’s time to cut firewood for the winter so it will have… Continue reading
BEING A GUIDE on the rivers of the Olympic Peninsula calls for more than just a big hat, a rubber boat and a can of… Continue reading
EVERY YEAR ABOUT this time, people who live in the woods start to get a little nervous. It’s like the old logger said. This might… Continue reading
IT’S THE SIMPLE things that I enjoy most about camping, like the smell of burning driftwood and watching the sparks from the fire shoot up… Continue reading
IT WAS ANOTHER tough week in the news. The 2024-25 Washington state fishing regulations came out. We’ve been waiting for them since April 1. That’s… Continue reading
IT WAS GOING to be one of those days. From the dawn’s early light to the twilight’s last gleaming, it was one of those days… Continue reading
FROM THE ACIDIFIED ocean to the melting glaciers, the Olympic Peninsula has seen an unprecedented invasion of tourists searching for solitude while waiting in line… Continue reading
“WHERE CAN I see a bear?” the frantic tourist asked. This is a common question among the seasonal visitors to the emerald green playground we… Continue reading
IT IS DAYLIGHT in the swamp. The faint cooing of the band tailed pigeon ushers in the dawn of another soggy spring day. Beneath the… Continue reading
IT’S TIME ONCE again for the third annual Sasquatch Days in Forks this Memorial Day weekend from May 24 to 26. The Sasquatch has haunted… Continue reading
“LIGHTNING BOLDT,” IS a biography of Judge George H. Boldt by John C. Hughes, Chief Historian for the Office of Secretary of State. It’s a… Continue reading
