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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,…
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PAT NEAL: The Big One between Thunderbird, nemesis
AS AMBASSADORS OF the tourist industry, it is often our duty to answer the many questions visitors have…
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PAT NEAL: Could learn a thing or two from black bears
SOMEONE RECENTLY ASKED me: How can I protect my children from the bears?
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PAT NEAL: Give Canada break on smokey air
IT WAS ANOTHER tough week in the news, when we learned the value of things we take for…
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PAT NEAL: Helping tourists enjoy their their stays
WITH SWARMS OF tourists assaulting the North Olympic Peninsula this summer, it might be a good time to…
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PAT NEAL: Making the rain more palatable
THIS PAST WEEKEND saw a chain reaction of tragic events that might have marred the image of the…
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PAT NEAL: Question marks fill tourism’s legacy
IN MY JULY 5 column, we traced the history of tourists on the North Olympic Peninsula from the…
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PAT NEAL: A short history of tourists
NOW THAT THE tourists are finally here it’s easy to remember why we put a season on them.
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PAT NEAL: Another round of stupefying rules
IT WAS ANOTHER tough week in the news: The 2017 Washington state fishing rules were finally printed.
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PAT NEAL: My fruitless search for wild blackberries
IT WAS ANOTHER tough week in the news, when the journalistic skills of this gossip columnist were tried…