AUTUMN IS A time of plenty on the Olympic Peninsula. The salmon are running. The game is fattened and the berries are ripe. This is… Continue reading
IT WAS DAYLIGHT at the homestead, but I was more than a little late for breakfast. I probably missed it by 50 years or so.… Continue reading
MUCH IS AT stake in the upcoming elections. In Clallam County, which is now our nation’s sole bellwether county for the presidential race, your vote… Continue reading
IT MIGHT HAVE been the American philosopher Ralph Waldo Emerson who was credited with saying, “build a better mousetrap and the world will beat a… Continue reading
SEPTEMBER IS NATIONAL Disaster Preparedness Month. It’s time to raise awareness about the importance of preparing for disasters and emergencies. This year’s theme for disaster… Continue reading
1890 WAS A good time to be on the Olympic Peninsula. That was before the coming of the railroads and the industrial age that slaughtered… Continue reading
IT WAS ANOTHER tough week in the news. We almost didn’t need a bombshell press release from Olympic National Park to ruin our weekend with… Continue reading
AS FORMER STATE legislators, we’ve been on the front lines of the work to both protect our natural environment and advocate for a vibrant timber… Continue reading
SEPTEMBER IS THE season of harvest, when we gather the fruits of our labors. It is the realization of a dream to have a small… Continue reading
BY NOW, I think we’ve all had it up to here with people complaining about the rain. That’s crazy. Psychologists have finally identified this chronic… Continue reading
YOU KNOW LIGHTNING’S getting closer when you feel the thunder in your bones. That’s how close it got during the recent storm that battered the… Continue reading
WITH THE MIRACLE of climate change, people living in the southern states of this great experiment in democracy we call America are bailing from their… Continue reading
AS GOODWILL AMBASSADORS of the tourist industry, it is our civic duty to share our precious local knowledge of the Olympic Peninsula with our foreign… Continue reading
WITH THE RECENT spell of rainy weather, firewood fever has hit the land. It’s time to cut firewood for the winter so it will have… Continue reading
BEING A GUIDE on the rivers of the Olympic Peninsula calls for more than just a big hat, a rubber boat and a can of… Continue reading
EVERY YEAR ABOUT this time, people who live in the woods start to get a little nervous. It’s like the old logger said. This might… Continue reading
IT’S THE SIMPLE things that I enjoy most about camping, like the smell of burning driftwood and watching the sparks from the fire shoot up… Continue reading
