Dicks, Murray: Protect Olympic rivers and wildlands

by | Nov 16, 2011 | Uncategorized |

U.S. Rep. Norm Dicks and Sen. Patty Murray, D-Wash., are out with a draft plan that would designate 130,000 acres of additional wilderness in federal forest lands on the Olympic Peninsula. The proposal would also put 23 rivers – including such well-known streams...

Sportsmen for Wild Olympics group forms

by | Nov 16, 2011 | Uncategorized |

At least five hunters and fishermen have teamed up with several hunting and fishing organizations to create the group Sportsmen for Wild Olympics. The group launched a new website to talk about what they perceive as the benefits to a plan by the Wild Olympics Campaign...

Soil and Soul

by | Oct 27, 2011 | Uncategorized |

Only one letter separates the words SOIL and SOUL. Since I live my life on a 33-acre organic family farm and artisan cidery in the rural Chimacum Valley on the Olympic Peninsula, the soil and my soul are deeply interrelated. Our livelihood on the land which we call...