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A Change in Tide and Weather

The first of the autumn storms came through last week – temporarily dusting the Cascades and Olympics with a bit of snow. The changing weather pattern has also brought temperatures down in the lowlands – with the first frost expected…

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Only Navy Nukes Know…

  Only those who went through Navy Nuclear Power School, Naval Nuclear Prototype Training, and then prepared for, and went through annual Operational Reactor Safeguards Exams (ORSE), can understand.  

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Posted in Commentary and Reflections Environmental Fishing Locations

The Starfish and The Crab

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…

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Remembering Steve

I’ve been giving a good deal of thought about 2024 being the 50th anniversary of my college graduation, which also marked the start of my life’s big adventures. But as I learned over a number of years, an excess of…

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Partisan Politics: Our Ahab, Our Moby-Dick

“All my means are sane, my motive and my object mad.” Captain Ahab’s words, spoken for him by Ishmael, the narrator of Herman Melville’s 1851 novel, explain his quest for Moby-Dick, the white whale. Soon after leaving Nantucket Island, Ahab…

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Posted in Environmental

Seattle Times: Northwest Steelhead In Crisis

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…

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Ripples

I’ve been going to the same barber/hair stylist for 35 years. Through relationships, health issues, and other life adventures, Richard and I have shared a lot of the journey together. Through much of that time, Richard and his wife Christina…

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Passages

Edited on 9/2/2024 – received word of the death of Joe Ravas, whose death in June was not known before today One of the things my father told me when he was in his mid-seventies was that he spent a…

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Posted in Environmental

The Means Way to Health

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…

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Posted in Fishing Locations Gear

Low Slack, Kelp, And Gear Review

I had been watching the tides for the last few days to determine when the best time for fishing would be. Generally, on this side of Puget Sound, an ebb tide is best on the beaches I fish. Without going…

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