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PAT NEAL: Happy New Year
THANK YOU FOR reading this. Sometimes I think if you didn’t read this, no one would.
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PAT NEAL: Merry Christmas anyway
THIS HAS BEEN a controversial Christmas season in the controversial year where everything is offensive if you think…
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PAT NEAL: Yes, Virginia, there is a steelhead
(WITH APOLOGIES TO Francis Pharcellus Church, editor of the New York Sun, Dec. 21, 1897.)
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PAT NEAL: Flu season shots help
THIS IS A morning that can make you feel like a spawned-out salmon headed downstream tail first.
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PAT NEAL: The holiday marathon
IT WAS ANOTHER tough week in the news made even tougher by the long Thanksgiving weekend.
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PAT NEAL: A Dirty Thirties Thanksgiving
THIS IS A story of an Olympic Peninsula family celebrating Thanksgiving in the olden days.
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PAT NEAL: Our disappearing ferns
IT ALL STARTED with an attempt to share in nature’s bounty and celebrate the harvest of wild foods.…
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PAT NEAL: Bring back the spawners
IT WAS AN early morning on the river. I was launching a boat in the dark.
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PAT NEAL: Getting along in the country
AN AWFUL LOT of city folks are moving to the country these days and they want to know…
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PAT NEAL: Anatomy of an orchard
IT WAS DAYLIGHT at the homestead but I was more than a little late for breakfast.
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PAT NEAL: It is never too late to panic
AS A STUDENT of wilderness survival, it has always amazed me how often wilderness survival experts offer the…
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PAT NEAL: Tips on getting lost
IT WAS THAT great American philosopher Daniel Boone who said, “I have never been lost but I was…
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PAT NEAL: Things could be worse
THERE ARE FEW sounds more comforting than the steady drumming of heavy rain on the roof.
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PAT NEAL: Wooden boat worries
IT’S TIME for the 43rd annual Port Townsend Wooden Boat Festival.
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PAT NEAL: Backpacking tips
THERE’S NOTHING QUITE like the freedom of the hills, with the mountains spread before you in a scenic…
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PAT NEAL: So sad to see them go
IT’S SAD TO see an old friend go away. It begs the question, if they’re leaving why should…