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PAT NEAL: The life list
BIRD WATCHING IS my life.
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PAT NEAL: Highway history on the Peninsula
BUILDING ROADS ON the Olympic Peninsula has always been a challenge. In the days before roads, people traveled…
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PAT NEAL: The road report
IT TAKES A big man to admit you’re wrong. Unfortunately, I am not that man. While I’d never…
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PAT NEAL: No answer is an answer
IT WAS ANOTHER tough week in the news. Demonstrators flooded the streets of Port Angeles, making their voices…
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YOUR VIEW: Forest service workers perform important work
ON BEHALF OF myself and not the federal agency I currently work for, I’d like to share a…
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PAT NEAL: Fix the road
IT’S ONLY FEBRUARY, but our Olympic Peninsula tourist season has already started.
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PAT NEAL: The day after Valentine’s
“IT MUST BE nice to be a fishing guide.” If I had a dollar for every time I…
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PAT NEAL: Digging potatoes in the snow
THERE ARE FEW things I enjoy more than digging potatoes in the snow. I know, I should have…
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PAT NEAL: A hard winter
IF I HEARD this once I’ve heard it a million times from the old-timers who claimed that winters…
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PAT NEAL: How’s the fishing?
HOW’S THE FISHING? If I had a buck for every time somebody asked that question, I wouldn’t waste…
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PAT NEAL: The cow whisperer
AS A CHILD, I wanted to be a cowboy. To wake up under a starlit western sky to…
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PAT NEAL: A cabin fever cure
YOU DON’T HAVE to be crazy to dig razor clams in the night tides of January — but…
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PAT NEAL: A short history of geology
THE GEOLOGY OF the Olympic Peninsula offers a fascinating glimpse into the massive forces of nature that shaped…
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PAT NEAL: Keeping New Year’s resolutions
THE SECRET OF making and keeping New Year’s resolutions is to focus on the little things that can…
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PAT NEAL: The perfect Christmas gift
BY NOW, I’M pretty sure we’ve all had it up to here with those phony Christmas letters some…
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PAT NEAL: A Christmas survival guide
WHY CAN’T CHRISTMAS last all year? You’d better be glad that it doesn’t.
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PAT NEAL: A Dirty Thirties Thanksgiving
THIS IS A story about Thanksgiving in the olden days.
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PAT NEAL: Hunting season excuses
AND SO, ANOTHER hunting season passes astern. I hope yours went better than mine. It was a shipwreck…
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PAT NEAL: Spawned-out salmon important to ecosystem
IT WAS DAYLIGHT on the river. The shadowy forms of overhanging trees appeared like a tunnel in the…