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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: The best April Fools’ joke ever

APRIL FOOLS’ DAY must be my favorite holiday.

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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: Don’t get suckered in by sunshine

IT WAS DAYLIGHT on the river.

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PAT NEAL: Cabin fever cure, the alternative

IT’S OFFICIAL.

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PAT NEAL: A saga of mice and me

I CONSIDER MYSELF a humane person.

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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…

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PAT NEAL: Leave your garbage-bag rain gear at home

THE RECENT MARTIN Luther King Jr. holiday is a three-day weekend that traditionally marks the peak of the…

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PAT NEAL: Rest in peace, Granny

THEY SAY THE good die young, but there are exceptions.

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PAT NEAL: For deep snow, tread back in history

THE HISTORY OF the Earth goes back billions of years.

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PAT NEAL: Lions and tigers and log cabins, oh my!

IT WAS A gratifying end to the old year and a hopeful beginning to the new to read…

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PAT NEAL: Harkening back to the Christmas letter

THIS IS A special time of year when the joy and warmth of the holiday season can drive…

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PAT NEAL: Defeating Japan in World War II a family fight

“DEC. 7, 1941 — a date which will live in infamy …”