Opinion
PAT NEAL: Whales’ boundless salmon appetite
IT WAS ANOTHER tough week in the news, but there’s another toxic concern to keep you awake at…
Sports
PAT NEAL’S WILDLIFE: I get letters — all cut up in little pieces
MOMMA ALWAYS SAID if you can’t say something nice, write a newspaper column. When I first started out,…
Sports
PAT NEAL’S WILDLIFE: The wilderness can be downright buggy
IT IS DAYLIGHT in the swamp. There is a buzzing sound as the insects of the forest awakened.…
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PAT NEAL’S WILDLIFE: Genetically altering fish monkeys with Nature
IT WAS ANOTHER tough week in the news. A front-page article that appeared Monday in the Peninsula Daily…
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PAT NEAL’S WILDLIFE COLUMN: Gone fishing with ‘Twilight’ characters
MAYBE YOU THINK being a wilderness gossip columnist is easy. It might sound like a dream job, just…
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PAT NEAL’S WILDLIFE: An undammed Olympic river with limited fish
SOMEONE RECENTLY ASKED me if taking the dams out of the Elwha River would bring the salmon back.…
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THE PAT NEAL WILDLIFE COLUMN: Bull trout bull
A SHARP-EYED READER recently suggested a correction to my May 26 column about the Dungeness Valley Creamery. It’s…
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PAT NEAL WILDLIFE COLUMN: The last dairy farms
IT SEEMS THESE days, people don’t know where their food comes from. That was not a problem growing…
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THE PAT NEAL COLUMN: Why we have a season for tourists
AN ECONOMIC SUMMIT was held recently to discuss ways to stimulate the economy of the North Olympic Peninsula.…
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PAT NEAL’S WILDLIFE COLUMN: Next time you’re on the water, heeere kitty, kitty, kitty
LAST WEEK I got an announcement from PETA, People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals, about a proposal…
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PAT NEAL’S WILDLIFE COLUMN: Ain’t that a punch in your card
APRIL CAN BE the cruelest month. It’s when we are forced to turn in our income tax and…
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PAT NEAL’S WILDLIFE COLUMN: Different way to see red while fly fishing
FISHING HAS ALWAYS been a metaphor for life. In fishing and in life, you must have a vision…
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PAT NEAL’S WILDLIFE COLUMN: Earth Day, dammed rivers and overharvesting
I REMEMBER THE very first Earth Day back in the 1970s. Fishing must have been slow, since I…
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PAT NEAL’S WILDLIFE: Digging up the oldest fishing law
THANK YOU FOR reading this. Sometimes I think if you didn’t read this, no one would. But you…
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PAT NEAL’S WILDLIFE: Counting marmots for fun and profit
YOU HEARD IT here first: I’m through writing this column once I get my new job as a…
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PAT NEAL’S WILDLIFE COLUMN: A cacophony of wilderness vexation
DAYLIGHT ON THE river comes mighty early these days. It is a peaceful time of day to watch…
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THE PAT NEAL COLUMN: What defines a good day’s fishing?
“CALL ME WHEN the fishing’s good,” my fancy friend said. I wish had a dollar for every time…
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PAT NEAL’S WILDLIFE: Spinning endangered species roulette
ALL I HAVE ever tried to do as a wilderness gossip columnist was to remove the dirty linen…
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PAT NEAL’S WILDLIFE: Fishers don’t know their boundaries
IT’S ALWAYS SAD to see a lost-animal poster. Many people, myself included, can become so attached to animals…
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THE PAT NEAL COLUMN: The treasure of the sierra Olympics
I WAS RESEARCHING the history of the Dungeness River by driving old-timers around their old stomping grounds and…