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Outdoors blog archive for Aug. 2011

THURSDAY, AUG. 18, 2011



WEDNESDAY, AUG. 17, 2011



Record steelhead catch logged on Columbia

FISHING -- Anglers on the lower Columbia records are setting records with the number of steelhead they're catching on the lower Columbia, according to a detailed report by Northwest Sportsman. It's not clear whether that's a good omen or a bad one for upstream anglers…

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Oregon Conservation Fund a misnomer, groups say

PREDATOR CONTROL -- Oregon's new fund to boost predator control is appallingly misnamed environmental groups say. Even Governor John Kitzhaber complained of the name when he signed the measure into law, according to a Northwest Public Radio report. Few people would balk at contributing at…

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TUESDAY, AUG. 16, 2011


Penstamen blooms on the rocks on a ridge in the Salmo-Priest Wilderness overlooking Watch Lake and Gypsy Peak, the highest mountain in Eastern Washington. (Rich Landers)

Today it's even more peaceful at Gypsy Peak 

HIKING -- Today is the first day of the annual late-summer closure of several roads leading to prime recreation areas in the Sullivan Lake Ranger District of the Colville National Forest. The closures were instituted in the 1980s to reduce human disturbance in prime grizzly…

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A pink – or humpback – salmon caught by Vladimir Veliovski of Pacific, Wash., flops on the beach Aug. 4 before Veliovski can get his hands on it. About 50 fishermen were catching pinks from shore and pier at Dash Point Park. Tacoma News Tribune (Tacoma News Tribune / The Spokesman-Review)

Pink salmon flooding into Puget Sound

SALMON FISHING -- Puget Sound anglers are in the pink, hooking up with the building surge of six million pink salmon forecast to flood Puget Sound during the next two months. The catch of pink salmon hit an all-time high last week at Sekiu in…

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Construction forces Centennial Trail detour

TRAIL REROUTED: Upriver Drive from Freya to Frederick: A sewer construction project will create an Upriver Drive detour for Centennial Trail users for almost a year, the Friends of the Centennial Trail report. The trail will be closed from Freya to Frederick Avenue on Upriver…

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Next East Side wolf meeting Aug. 29 in Ellensburg 

ENDANGERED SPECIES -- The Washington Fish and Wildlife Commission has scheduled three more special meetings to discuss the state's recommended Wolf Conservation and Management Plan and take public comment. A meeting in Ellensburg is set for Aug. 29 while the others are set for Oct.…

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MONDAY, AUG. 15, 2011




Badger Lake property owners Carl and Dana Strode, shown boating Wednesday, oppose plans of other property owners who want to use herbicides to control aquatic vegetation along the shoreline. (Dan Pelle)

Badger Lake aquatic herbicide permit on hold 

LAKES -- Dana Strode reports the Pollution Control Hearings Board granted a stay on the herbicide permit issued to control native aquatic plants in front of several properties on the Spokane County lake and popular trout fishery. Strode is one of seveveral property owners who…

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