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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...