The Olympic Peninsula is a beautiful and amazing place, one that draws people here to work and raise their families while providing unparalleled opportunities to experience the outdoors. With the recent introduction of legislation to protect the precious ancient...

I urge support for the bill in Congress to protect the Wild Olympics. Congressman Derek Kilmer and Sen. Patty Murray have introduced the bill. This would protect more than 126,000 acres of wilderness and 19 rivers in the Olympic National Forest and Olympic National...

More than 300 Olympic Peninsula hunters, anglers and guides are endorsing the newly-revived Wild Olympics bill. Their petition urges Congress to back the bill’s goal of designating more than 126,500 acres of Olympic National Forest as wilderness and label portions of...

Any legislative proposal that can be filed under the category of "conservation" is likely to generate some knee-jerk opposition. The standard reaction in some quarters is to label such legislation as "job-killing" or "anti-business" or "bad for the economy." But when...

A group of Olympic Peninsula hunters, anglers, and guides of Sportsmen for Wild Olympics delivered signatures last week from more than 300 local sportsmen and women on a petition to Senator Murray and Representative Kilmer in support of their new legislation to...

Sportsmen for Wild Olympics have delivered signatures from more than 300 local sportsmen and women on a petition to Senator Murray and Representative Kilmer in support of the Wild Olympics Wilderness & Wild and Scenic Rivers Act. According to the Wild Olympics...

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...