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PAT NEAL: A new cure for cabin fever
THE HOLIDAYS ARE over. Only the mess remains.
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PAT NEAL: New Year resolutions pointless to keep
BY NOW WE’VE all had it up to here with newspaper pundits preaching New Year’s resolutions that they…
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PAT NEAL: If we could talk to the animals
THROUGHOUT HISTORY AND around the world, man has studied the ways in which animals communicate in an effort…
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PAT NEAL: Gift ideas for fishermen
DURING THE HOLIDAYS we often wonder what to get the fishermen on our gift list.
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PAT NEAL: Prognosticating the steelhead season
LATELY I’VE HEARD people say this is the most wonderful time of the year and who could argue…
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PAT NEAL: An amazing new fish recipe
NOW THAT IT’S almost steelhead season it might be a good time to review the latest rule changes…
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PAT NEAL: The mystery of the Sasquatch
I’LL NEVER FORGET the first time I saw a Sasquatch. It was Feb. 28, 1970-something.
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PAT NEAL: New threat to our threatened salmon
IT WAS ANOTHER tough week in the news for the planet we call home.
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PAT NEAL: No fishing problem that new laws won’t solve
WHO SAYS THERE’S no good news when every day, there are new and exciting things happening all around…
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PAT NEAL: Hunting excuses for almost every occasion
IT WAS DAYLIGHT in the forest on opening day of deer hunting season. Opening day is my favorite…
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PAT NEAL: A good day’s fishing
DID YOU EVER have one of those days where nothing seems to go right? When everything you try,…
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PAT NEAL: One more letter from the mail bag
THANKS FOR READING this. If you didn’t read this, no one would, but you do. I can tell…
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PAT NEAL: Blue tarp campers shun motorized comforts
OF COURSE IT’S wrong to compare the plight of the Syrian, Sudanese and Rohingya refugees with the blue-tarp…
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PAT NEAL: How to prepare for the coming winter
IT’S TIME ONCE again for the annual winter weather forecast.
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PAT NEAL: How’s the fishing on Enceladus?
IT WAS A rare good week for those of us who call the Earth our home, with the…
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PAT NEAL: The best available science for extinction
IT WAS ANOTHER tough week in the news for the endangered species of the North Olympic Peninsula.
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PAT NEAL: Tourist questions asked by real tourists
THIS MUST BE one of the busiest tourist seasons ever.
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PAT NEAL: Don’t cry over spilled salmon
THERE’S AN OLD saying around here that good fences make good neighbors or good neighbors make good fences,…