Tacoma Astronomical Society offers new ways to look at the night sky
- The Tacoma Astronomical Society and Puyallup Library staff are praying for dry weather next week. Tuesday night is the fifth annual free Star Party in the park outside the library – and for the last four years it’s been too rainy to use the society’s big telescopes.
The first chinook of the season have gone through Bonneville Dam, but fish biologists aren’t sure if they are springers.
Officials are asking Mount Rainier National Park visitors to look out for clues related to four people missing there since mid-January.
It’s already evident that when cold weather comes along, hibernation mode soon follows. A recent Gallup poll confirmed that Americans steadily eat worse and exercise less during the fall and winter months – and even more so in 2011 than last.
Metro Parks Tacoma is offering a series of trips for people looking for a winter adventure, but don’t have equipment, experience or a buddy to go with.
For the fifth consecutive year, about 44,000 acres of state wildlife land east of Ellensburg will be closed to motor vehicles Wednesday through April 30. The closure is meant to protect wintering elk from disturbance, and in turn reduce elk damage to adjacent private lands.
The state Fish and Wildlife Commission is expected to vote on a package of sportfishing rule changes for 2012-13 during its meetings Friday and Saturday in Olympia. The commission also is expected to increase the number of multiple season hunting permits issued each year.
Seattle’s Convention and Visitors Bureau has launched a new travel platform to promote overnight stays and highlight Seattle’s unique scene. The new tool, 2DaysInSeattle.com, is a companion site to SCVB’s official visitseattle.org.
The Daffodil Valley Volkssport Association will hold its Bonney Lake Ups & Downs walk on Feb. 11.
The state Department of Natural Resources has rescheduled an open house on the Snoqualmie Corridor Recreation Plan for Wednesday. The original meeting was postponed by bad weather and road conditions.
While the 2012 smelt forecast for the Columbia River and its tributaries is favorable, recreational anglers should plan to leave their nets in the garage for another season. Both recreational and commercial fisheries will remain closed this year, the Washington and Oregon fish and wildlife agencies have decided.
An update on the status of the park’s elk herds will be the next installment in the Perspectives Winter Speaker Series at Olympic National Park.
All sport crabbers who had a license to fish for crab in the Puget Sound during the winter season have until Wednesday to report their winter catch.
There were four winners from the South Sound in the 2011 Northwest Exposure photo contest held by Washington Trails Association.
People eager to get out and fish this weekend might be better off heading for a river. Timing your trip will be important. River levels might be on the high side this weekend, but there is more rain in the forecast for Sunday. So today might be the best bet before river levels start to rise again.
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