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PAT NEAL: Dreamer, bureaucrat and scammer: That’s me
WHILE IT IS true that in describing the dissolution of the Hoh River Trust in my May 31…
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PAT NEAL: A lack of faith in Hoh River Trust
IT WAS ANOTHER tough week in the news for those of us who love the Hoh River.
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PAT NEAL: In the sky: a bird, a plane, the sun!
THERE WAS A mysterious bright object seen out on the West End the other day.
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PAT NEAL: Outfoxed by crafty birds
ALL I WANTED was a quiet place at the end of the road where I could write my…
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PAT NEAL: Green crab Dungeness’ newest tormenter
IT WAS ANOTHER tough week in the news for our environment.
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PAT NEAL: Real science too scary to deal with
HALLOWEEN USED TO be the scariest holiday of the year with ghosts, goblins and the zombie apocalypse threatening…
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PAT NEAL: There’s ‘gold’ in them thar ditches
THEY SAY AMERICA is a country divided and exploited by plundering gangs of panty-grabbing politicians eternally enthroned by…
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PAT NEAL: In loving memory: Goin’s gone fishing
SEEN ANY GOOD movies lately? I did. It’s a love story where boy meets girl and then boy…
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PAT NEAL: Wheels spin on replenishing our salmon
IT WAS ANOTHER tough week in the news for the Pacific Coastal Salmon Fund.
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PAT NEAL: Biologists are OK after all
I THOUGHT IT would be fun to attend a meeting of some fisheries biologists with fishing folks at…
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PAT NEAL: Oh, for the good old days on the Elwha River
IT’S ALWAYS SAD to read about the loss of an old friend.
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PAT NEAL: By chance, spared the savage sea
SOME SAY THERE is no such thing as a coincidence.
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PAT NEAL: The seeds of our fishless halibut fishery
IT WAS ANOTHER tough week in the news for the diminishing breed of fishing-license buyers who insist on…
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PAT NEAL: Will the Sasquatch ascend the cryptid throne?
IT MUST HAVE been a slow day at the Legislature.
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PAT NEAL: Steelhead fishing’s last bastion gasping
I KNEW IT was the end when a low-holing, fly-flogging fishing guide floated past on the river and…