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Sense of Place
It usually starts with maps. Somebody mentions a piece of water, a drainage, an obscure…
Left or Right?
I stop in at the local fly shop, in need of backing on a new…
Fire Season
It started in May. I got up early one week-day morning, drove downriver to the…
The Dance With Wilderness Fires
It should come as no surprise to anyone here that there are few things I…
Weather Report: Part 2
In another bit of startling news from the heat-beleagured West, the Nature Conservancy has announced…
Weather Report
Startling and unprecedented heat has left anglers throughout the Pacific Northwest wondering the worst: Is…
What’s in a Name?
My old buddy Peter Syka, the biologist, is in town, sharing a few choice words…
Shad Me
Like most things fishing, questions about shad, another profligate exotic here in the Columbia River…
Science Says
Epigenetics gets at the fact that although the genetic makeup of steelhead raised in either…
Tucker Smith’s Painting, The Refuge, Has Taken to the Road
One of the most important paintings in the collection of the National Museum of Wildlife…
Miracles on Thirty Mile Creek
A recent WRC acquisition, in my neck of the woods, includes the second of two…
Lest We Forget: In Praise of Double Tapers
During the dozen or so years I taught wannabe fly fishers the rudiments of the…Gray's Sporting Properties
