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[caption id align="alignnone" width="1456"] The psychedelic trail into the forest, photo by Mark Rose [/caption] A column by Mark Rose, originally published in December 2024 Every evening, about an hour before sunset, I set out on a two-mile hike with our golden retriever Hanne.
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[caption id align="alignnone" width="2048"] A fuel truck is seen overturned in Indian Creek in the Elwha River watershed after it crashed on Friday, July 18, 2025, near Port Angeles. (Photo courtesy of Clallam 2 Fire-Rescue) [/caption] News by Jake Goldstein-Street, Washington State Standard Washington
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[caption id align="alignnone" width="1080"] Photo by Eden Blooms [/caption] A monthly ethnobotany column by Eden Blooms Summer is afoot, calling us together to defrost our worn winter bones in the sun's golden rays and dive into the snowmelt-chilled waters of Cascadia. It&
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[caption id align="alignnone" width="3072"] Photo by Eden Blooms [/caption] A monthly ethnobotany column by Eden Blooms This time of year, I’m enchanted by the song of the Swainson’s Thrush swirling through the air. These small but mighty birds are long-distance migrants, traveling
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[caption id align="alignnone" width="1440"] Photo courtesy of the Jefferson County PUD [/caption] News by Scott France Jefferson County PUD Board of Commissioners will review and possibly vote on a staff proposal for a proposed 9% rate increase. The proposal, the result of a yearlong
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[caption id align="alignnone" width="1760"] Port Townsend’s watershed. Photo courtesy of the City of Port Townsend. [/caption] News by Angela Downs The water out of a tap in Port Townsend travels 30 miles through the Olympic Gravity Water system (OGWS), from the Big Quilcene
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[caption id align="alignnone" width="3024"] Ulva Algea, a nuisance species, is being tested on local farms as fertilizer. Photo courtesy of the Puget Sound Restoration Fund [/caption] News by Angela Downs “Long kelp fronds waving through clear green waters evoke a strong sense of home
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[caption id align="alignnone" width="1463"] The property that EFM manages and Microsoft has invested in is the Olympic Rainforest, a 68,000 acre property that spance Clallam and Jefferson Counties. Image provided by EFM [/caption] News by Nhatt Nichols “To participate in the carbon credit
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[caption id align="alignnone" width="1536"] A tree sitter is currently preventing the harvesting of DNR land by. a plywood company. Photo by G. Dobyns [/caption] News by G. Dobyns Early on Wednesday, May 7, activists erected a tree-sit and blockade of a logging road off
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[caption id align="alignnone" width="3072"] Photo and illustration by Eden Blooms [/caption] A monthly ethnobotany column by Eden Blooms Amidst the towering forests of Cascadia, a fleeting bloom is beginning to make its appearance in the understory - Western Trillium, Trillium ovatum. This gentle yet
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[caption id align="alignnone" width="716"] Image of Last Crocker forest courtesy of The Legacy Forest Defense Coalition website [/caption] News by Angela Downs The “Last Crocker Timber Sale”, Legacy Forest Defense Coalition of Washington vs. The Department of Natural Resources (DNR) came before the court
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[caption id align="alignnone" width="4032"] Clearing the Canary Grass out of Chimacum. Photo courtesy of the Jefferson County Conservation District. [/caption] News by Scott France Heading south from Chimacum on either Center road or Highway 19, travelers are treated to bucolic landscapes that suggest healthy