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Karl Krüger paddles 420 miles of the Northwest Passage
By Ian Haupt
Last summer, Karl Krüger sat in Paulatuk at ease.
Krüger had set off from Tuktoyaktuk, bound for Pond Inlet, Nunavut, just over...
Skagit Tours return in North Cascades National Park
Seattle City Light and North Cascades Institute have partnered to bring back the Skagit Tours program this year.
For up to $45, tourists can take...
Outdoor classroom opens in Fairhaven Park
In May, Bellingham mayor Seth Fleetwood, Bellingham parks and recreation director Nicole Oliver and Recreation Northwest executive director Todd Elsworth gathered at the edge...
Finding water in Olympic National Park
By Tony Moceri
For those of you who have forgotten how lucky we are to live in our corner of the world, let me remind...
Book reviews
reviews by Meg Olson
Cascadia Field Guide: Art, Ecology, Poetry
Edited by Elizabeth Bradfield, CMarie Fuhrman and Derek Sheffield
Mountaineers Books
My great-grandfather told my mother that it...
Daring and dangerous
The migration of birds
By Ben Stalheim
As a kid, I would look for birds by running trails behind my house. Before I ever owned binoculars,...
Forest bathing
Visiting our tall, quiet friends along the north Pacific
By Eric Lucas
Treebeard has nothing to say.
Typical Ent.
Tolkien would be delighted. The British author’s famous anthropomorphic...
One Sherpa home
Bellingham climber raises funds to build new home for his Sherpa following Nepal earthquake
By Ian Haupt
Dave Mauro and his hired guide Mingma Chhring Sherpa...
Park service announces North Cascades grizzly bear efforts
Grizzly bear population efforts have gained momentum.
A new environmental impact statement (EIS) process, announced by the National Park Service and U.S. Fish and Wildlife...
550 acres of forestland secured on Stewart Mountain
In what is to be the first piece of the Stewart Mountain Community Forest, Whatcom Land Trust (WLT) announced in a November 4 news...