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Outdoors blog archive for March 9, 2011

WEDNESDAY, MARCH 9, 2011

Cougar hunting plan advances in Olympia

PREDATORS -- The Washington Senate approved another extension of a long-standing pilot program that allows the hunting of cougars with dogs in northeastern Washington and Klickitat County. The Senate approved the measure Tuesday 37-1. It would expand for another five years a pilot program created…

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'This Could Be True' item of the week

HUNTING -- The inscription on the metal bands used by the U.S. Department of the Interior to tag migratory birds has been changed, according to totally believable sources on the Internet. The bands used to bear the address of the Washington Biological Survey, which was…

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A wild steelhead salmon is brought to the boat before being released by fishermen on the Okanogan River. (Rich Landers)

Steelhead size overstated, so what's new?

STEELHEADING -- A few sharp-eyed readers noticed that fish in the photo of the "27.5-pound" steelhead (see two blog posts below this one) I hooked Tuesday in the Okanogan River either didn't look that big or the guy holding the fish, Jerrod Gibbons, must have…

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