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PAT NEAL: She died with her boots on
In last week’s episode, we were celebrating the life of the Hoh Tribal woman Tsi-hos-tub. Called Pansy Martin…
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PAT NEAL: Daughter of the Olympic Wilderness
Read any good books lately? Daughter of the Olympic Wilderness: The Life and Times of Pansy Martin Snell…
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PAT NEAL: Fishing for excuses
Profiling and stereotyping have no place in a Wilderness Gossip Column. In last week’s episode, it was mistakenly…
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PAT NEAL: The great deer hunt
I spent all last summer cursing the day deer were invented for what they did to my garden.
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PAT NEAL: The great mushroom hunt
In last week’s episode, we examined the very real possibility of mushroom hunters getting lost in the woods.
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PAT NEAL: A reoccurring moisture trend
A REAL WOODSMAN doesn’t need a weatherman to know if it is going to rain.
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PAT NEAL: A winter forecast
THE SIGNS OF the season are certain. There is fresh snow on Mount Olympus. The vine maples are…
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PAT NEAL: The fall chore list
THIS MUST BE the most beautiful fall weather we’ve seen in years. But I’m not one to sit…
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POINT OF VIEW: Big bold action needed for salmon restoration
THE DECLINES OF SALMON runs, as highlighted in Peter Segall’s Sept. 2 front-page article, are a bitter pill…
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PAT NEAL: A return to the Queets
Back on this day, Sept. 20, 1890, Private Harry Fisher, a member of Lt. Joseph P. O’Neil’s U.S.…
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PAT NEAL: The sting of bee season
By now, I think we’ve all had it up to here with our seasonal visitors and their in-your-face…
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Point of View: Bill aims to aid rural hospitals
FORTY-NINE YEARS ago, I was born at what was then called Olympic Memorial Hospital. Over the years, members…
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PAT NEAL: The autumn harvest
FALL MUST BE my favorite time of year — when the rain and wind wash the dust away…
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PAT NEAL: Back-to-school drugs
BACK TO SCHOOL. I wonder if any if any three words in the English language can shoot such…