The first of the autumn storms is forecast to arrive in the Northwest this week.  These storms typically bring in wind and rain in the lowlands, and snow in the mountains; and in most years, they mark the start of…

The salmonids are one of the most cherished and historically important family of fish in the Pacific Northwest. To many, they represent the Northwest more than the forests and mountains. To the Northwest native peoples they were important both as…

Casey and Calley Means are sister and brother.  He is graduate of the Harvard Business School and worked as a lobbyist for Big Food and Big Pharma.  Casey was a graduate of Stanford Medical School who was pursuing surgical training…

I mentioned in my last post I was going to ignore the 2024 election as much as possible. It is difficult with the deluge of emails, postal mail, radio and television advertising, and perhaps skywriting at some point. But sanity…

In law, some of the least understood, but most critical, issues relate to water law. Those legal issues exist at both state and national levels, as well as in treaties between nations. The United States basically has two types of…

November in Gig Harbor is typically cold and wet – the start of what I’ve called The Dark Ages. But it also marks the annual return of chum salmon to Donkey Creek and other streams in the Gig Harbor area,…

I haven’t posted in a while (almost two months).  Sometimes life just gets away from you. Rather than a series of posts, I thought I’d comment on a few things in one post – forcing a relative economy of words,…

I had gone to Narrows Beach Park this morning.  It was a warm sunny morning with a gentle breeze and an ebbing tide. The young mothers with their children were already setting up blankets and chairs near the park exit…

Sometimes a morning on the beach is just about fishing, but sometimes it’s much more when you stop, look, and reflect. Today’s time on the beach was the second. This weekend’s new moon is contributing to spring tides this week…

Yvon Chouinard, founder and owner (along with his wife) of Patagonia, the outdoor clothing company, has announced he will transfer the company (value approximately $3 billion) to a set of trusts. The goal is to preserve the company’s independence beyond…