As a boy growing up in Kent, Kyle Miller didn’t have a lot of time for the outdoors. Instead of enjoying the majestic mountains looming not far from his door, he grew up sitting around watching TV, playing video games and living a fairly sedentary lifestyle.
The state is pulling the plug on a hatchery steelhead program at Snider Creek next year to establish a wild steelhead management zone in the Sol Duc River.
Karen Gustin, superintendent of Olympic National Park since 2008, will retire early next month.
Gig Harbor will be the site for the inaugural Gig Harbor Paddlers Cup and Expo set for April 28-29.
Visitors to McNary National Wildlife Refuge on Saturday will have the chance to discover the abundance of ducks, swans, geese and other migrating birds during Waterfowl Day.
The Olympic Flight Museum will hold a paper airplane flight school on Feb. 25. The workshop will be from 1-3:30 p.m.
The Chilly Hilly ride has been kicking off the Northwest bicycling season for the past 39 years. This year’s event, to be held Feb. 26, features a 33-mile route around Bainbridge Island.
As Valentine’s Day approaches, many people search for just the right presents to make their loved ones feel special. Cards, candy, chocolates and heart-shaped everything spill out from store shelves. With so many options and so much fuss, you might be tempted to think that only people could be caught up in such material displays of affection.
Mount Rainier and National Park Service officials are preparing a call for bids to run the park’s concession operations.
Birders of all skill levels and citizen scientists will be looking out their picture windows to assess bird populations during the Great Backyard Bird Count.
Bird walk at Hess
The forecasted return of coho to the Columbia River, released earlier this week, is 317,200 fish, well below the actual run in 2011. Since 1970, adult coho returns to the Columbia River have ranged from a low of 74,800 in 1995 to a high of 1,549,100 in 1986, said state fisheries biologist Joe Hymer.
Northwest Trek will host Kids ’n’ Critters from 10 a.m.-3:30 p.m. Saturday-Feb. 20.
Lake Tapps angler Brian Dennis brought home the $4,000 second prize in last weekend’s Roche Harbor Salmon Classic Invitational. Dennis was the leader after the first day with his 16.2-pound chinook.
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