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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…
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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.