According to the Grays Harbor Wild Olympics Campaign, more than 80 local businesses have announced their support for Wild Olympics. Former Grays Harbor County Commissioner Al Carter with the campaign says that nine CEOs and nearly 100 new business endorsers from the...

WOC PRESS RELEASE  QUILCENE, WA - More than 100 Olympic Peninsula and South Puget Sound  CEOs and local businesses from multiple sectors of the economy announced their support for the Wild Olympics Campaign today, adding to the long list of local businesses already...

QUILCENE, WA - More than 50 hunting, fishing and recreation groups and outdoor businesses have joined the Wild Olympics Campaign in calling for permanent protection of our great outdoors as Washington gets ready to celebrate the 4th of July. Support for protection of...

PORT ANGELES — Derek Kilmer continued to remain noncommittal this week on planned legislation that would ban logging on more than 126,000 acres of Olympic National Forest by declaring it wilderness and creating a protective buffer around Olympic National Park....

BREMERTON — U.S. Rep. Derek Kilmer, D-Gig Harbor, told two Kitsap County town hall audiences Wednesday he prefers overall systemic budget solutions over “Whac-a-Mole” quick fixes. Kilmer spoke to about 75 at the Admiral Theatre in Bremerton on Wednesday afternoon,...

Repeat afer me: Natural systems are priceless in value, nearly impossible to replace, and cheap to maintain. All you have to do is protect them. So intoned Stuart Brand, publisher of The Whole Earth Catalog, decades ago. Now listen to [U.S. Rep.] Derek Kilmer. He says...

Mr. Driscoll knows better. Before being introduced in Congress, these new wilderness protections were subject to three years of unprecedented community involvement, resulting in significant changes to ensure that the proposal would foster economic growth [“The problem...

I was encouraged to see the news report that Sen. Patty Murray plans to reintroduce her Wild Olympics legislation once again  [“Murray seeks to expand wild lands,” NWWednesday, Feb. 13]. As a photographer, I have spent countless hours capturing images of old-growth...

I was pleased to read in the PDN that Sen. Patty Murray will re-introduce her Wild Olympics bill in Congress [“Murray to Resurrect Wild Olympics Bill,” Feb. 12]. In the more than 20 years that our family has lived in Port Angeles, we have spent many days (and nights)...

WASHINGTON —U.S. Sen. Patty Murray plans to reintroduce “Wild Olympics” legislation that would expand wilderness in Olympic National Forest by more than 126,000 acres and which would create a protective buffer around Olympic National Park. “Sen. Murray has worked with...