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PAT NEAL: Setting salmon seasons

WHO SAYS THERE is no good news anymore?

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PAT NEAL: The skunk cabbage; the real state flower

IT’S SPRINGTIME IN the lowlands.

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PAT NEAL: Looking on the bright side of snow

MAYBE THE BIRDS know something we don’t: that spring is just around the corner.

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PAT NEAL: The bug season forecast

THANK YOU FOR reading this.

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PAT NEAL: Snowstorm strategies and the bonds of vexation

BY NOW I think we’ve all had it up to here with living on the North Pole.

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PAT NEAL: That winter was a hard one

IF I’VE HEARD this once, I’ve heard it a million times from the local old-timers, “That winter was…

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PAT NEAL: A humble apology

THANK YOU FOR reading this.

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PAT NEAL: Remember your river etiquette

EDITOR’S NOTE: This column has been corrected to reflect that the river etiquette guidelines mentioned here are from…

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PAT NEAL: Finding the Pacific Trail

SOMETIMES, WHEN READING the accounts of the first people who came to the Olympic Peninsula, it’s hard to…

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PAT NEAL: From elk to puncheon trails

IN LAST WEEK’S episode we were considering the evolution of the Olympic Peninsula infrastructure while cruising the highways…

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PAT NEAL: The Peninsula’s hidden trails

OFTEN WHILE GLIDING along the paved roads of the Olympic Peninsula you wonder at the difficulty of travel…

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PAT NEAL: Thank you, Rose

THE NEW YEAR has come and with it a traditional impulse to resolve to do better than we…

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PAT NEAL: What I wanted for Christmas

HOW WAS YOUR Christmas?

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PAT NEAL: How’s the fishing?

HOW’S THE FISHING?

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PAT NEAL: A special time of year

IT’S A SPECIAL time of year when friends and relations get together to celebrate the joy of the…

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PAT NEAL: Most wonderful time of the year

IT’S THE MOST wonderful time of the year.

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PAT NEAL: Thanksgiving: Knowing when you got it good

THERE’S A LOT of talk these days about holiday stress.

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PAT NEAL: Salmon’s gift to the future

MAYBE YOU’VE HAD one of those days.

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PAT NEAL: My crazy uncle

I’VE GOT THIS crazy uncle.

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PAT NEAL: All new fishing excuses

IT HAPPENS EVERY year about this time.