Established as The Skamokawa Eagle in 1891
Established as The Skamokawa Eagle in 1891
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Jake Dailey and his three-man crew have spent the past two weeks swimming through dense thickets of young hemlock on the Ellsworth Creek Preserve. They call themselves the Rake Force, and their current mission - a pilot project with The Nature Conservancy - is to thin the stands from thousands of stems per acre to roughly 150 stems per acre. In spite of their name, which is a satirical play on comments then-President Donald Trump made in 2018 about the need to "rake" forests in order to reduce w...
All along State Route 6, from Raymond to Pe Ell, red and blue campaign signs dot the fields, while hardwoods turn yellow at the fringe. It’s a telltale color palette, signaling the approach of fall and with it, election season. Most of the signs are for president, governor, or congressperson. But many in this politically purple corner of Washington are paying equally close attention to the race for Commissioner of Public Lands. After two terms in office, incumbent Hilary Franz, a Democrat, h...
In late March, the Washington Department of Natural Resources put the Freedom timber sale up for auction. Located on 138 acres of state forestland 17 miles northeast of Naselle, the sale offered over 8,500 metric board-feet of hemlock and Douglas fir. The DNR’s timber cruise report calls it some “nice looking wood.” Nice enough for Stimson Lumber to bid more than $3 million, despite a conservation group’s appeal of the sale in Pacific County Superior Court a few weeks earlier. To the nonprof...
