It is the job of environmentalists to preserve the quality of the natural world that sustains our existence. It is the job of loggers to bring natural resources to market and help sustain the economy that serves us all. Responsible loggers are also environmentalists,...

I was one of nearly 300 Wild Olympics supporters who came out on short notice to celebrate the recent introduction of the Wild Olympics legislation into Congress. If you didn’t know otherwise, you would have thought the crowd was cheering on a Seahawks trip to the...

The opposition to the Wild Olympics bill introduced in Congress recently is difficult to understand. This carefully crafted measure mostly codifies what’s already happening — or not happening — in the Olympic Peninsula’s forests and waters it would affect. Introduced...

As early as 1832, the idea had surfaced that America should protect unique wilderness areas as pioneering settlements moved westward. It was a hit-and-miss concept until 1933 when President Franklin D. Roosevelt signed an Executive Order to create a National Park...

As early as 1832, the idea had surfaced that America should protect unique wilderness areas as pioneering settlements moved westward. It was a hit-and-miss concept until 1933 when President Franklin D. Roosevelt signed an Executive Order to create a National Park...

I was happy to hear that Rep. Derek Kilmer and Sen. Patty Murray introduced legislation to protect additional Wilderness and Wild and Scenic Rivers on the Olympic Peninsula. Rep. Kilmer understands that long term economic recovery requires firing on all cylinders —...

At one of the first meetings during his “State of the District” tour, U.S. Rep. Derek Kilmer promised to cover the good, the bad and the ugly of recent happenings in Congress. For a group comprised of mostly environmental activists late last week at a roundtable...

Environmentalists, real estate agents, shellfish business owners and business leaders are applauding the introduction by Rep. Derek Kilmer and Sen. Patty Murray of the Wild Olympics Wilderness and Wild and Scenic Rivers Act of 2014. But not everyone is happy about it....

Conservationists make great ancestors. Booth Gardner’s adage may comfort Sen. Patty Murray and Rep. Derek Kilmer, who introduced their Wild Olympics Wilderness and Wild and Scenic Rivers Act on Friday. Wilderness battles, even ones as scrutinized and sensible as this,...

ABERDEEN, WA --Today the group of Olympic Peninsula hunters, anglers, and guides of Sportsmen for Wild Olympics delivered signatures from more than 300 local sportsmen and women on a petition to Senator Murray and Representative Kilmer in support of their new...