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  • Cathlamet Yacht Club volunteers at Vista Park

    Aug 3, 2017

    Cathlamet Yacht Club spent the weekend sanding (photo by Genie Cary) and painting the double-ended gillnet boat (photo by Kopi Carmine) that is on display at Skamokawa Vista Park....

  • Program to focus on race

    Aug 3, 2017

    On August 12, the public is invited to attend a program, “Conversations About Race,” presented by the Southwestern Washington Women of the ELCA’s Racial Justice team, Today’s Dream, Tomorrow’s Reality. Registration begins at 8:30 a.m. at Stella Lutheran Chapel, 124 Sherman Road (off Germany Creek Road), Longview. The program runs 9-11:30 a.m. and is sponsored by Thrivent Financial. Call 360-849-4340 to let Mary Ann know you are coming....

  • Steelhead decline starts with ocean entry

    Columbia Basin Bulletin|Aug 3, 2017

    West Coast steelhead runs are declining, and a new study pegs much of the problem to poor survival of smolts early after entry into the ocean. After entering the ocean, steelhead smolts head out over the continental shelf from wherever they enter the ocean – British Columbia, Puget Sound, the coastal areas of Oregon and Washington and from the Columbia River – and then turn north to the Gulf of Alaska where the fish all mix before returning to their natal spawning grounds. While in the Gulf of Alaska steelhead remain more dispersed and sch...

  • Sidewalk art

    Aug 3, 2017

    How dry has it been? Pearl Blackburn observes that the children's sidewalk art from the first day of the Bald Eagle Festival, July 14, is still visible on Main Street. Photo courtesy of Pearl Blackburn....

  • Fall fishing sees lower coho, chinook returns

    Columbia Basin Bulletin|Aug 3, 2017

    Tribes, commercial gillnetters and sports anglers began fishing August 1 as the two-state Columbia River Compact met last week to set fishing times for the fall season. Some 613,840 fall chinook are forecasted to return to the Columbia River, 96 percent of 2016’s actual return of 642,400 fish and 84 percent of the 10-year average (2007 – 2016). Of those, nearly 403,600 upriver chinook will pass Bonneville Dam, a run that is typically half done by September 9. The forecast for coho salmon returning to the Columbia River is 319,300 fish, 93 per...