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Update, 2 seats available. Steve

Update, 2 seats available. Steve

Hi Ira, I suspect that the captain will be Chance. When Nick was having issues with his captain's license from the Coast Guard, Chance took the fly charters for All Rivers. I can ask if you wish. Steve

Hi folks, I am looking for 3 people to fill an albacore tuna charter with All Rivers on Tuesday, September 1st. The trip will be out of Westport. If this year goes like previous years, we will probably be scheduled to leave at 6AM and to return 3PMish. The 3 anglers who had agreed to fill...

Hi folks, I am looking for 3 people to fill an albacore tuna charter with All Rivers on Tuesday, September 1st. The trip will be out of Westport. If this year goes like previous years, we will probably be scheduled to leave at 6AM and to return 3PMish. The 3 anglers who had agreed to fill...

I can take one species off the “impossible to catch on a fly” category: the bowfin (Amia calva). Bowfins are primitive, air-breathing fish with heavily armored heads with rows of scary-looking teeth on multiple skull bones. Adults are typically about 20” long. They are ambush predators in...

No, no rattling at all. I was perhaps 15 feet away from them. Their only response to my presence was to dive into a hole under the boulder and I'm not sure that both of them would fit. Steve

Western Rattlesnakes at Oak Creek Nature Area. June 2026. My wife and I went on a one-day flora and fauna adventure to the foothills of Eastern Washington. We stoped at the Oak Creek Natural Area and hiked along the Tieton River. As we headed back, I lagged several minutes behind her as I...

And rattlesnake plantains that may bloom later. Steve

Love the additions. Bring them on!!! Here is a recent picture of a calypso orchid (aka fairy slipper) from Union Creek on the east side of Chinook Pass. Steve

Gorgeous oddities... Steve

Cool picture. The flower along the bottom, middle appears to be western coralroot (thin lateral and dorsal sepals and petals, thin, tall column) and the greenish-yellow plants to the right might be a rare albino form called albolabia (white labellum and pale yellow sepals and petals). Steve

The largest recorded starry flounder was almost a yard long and almost 20 pounds (see here). Steve

Sweet. I've been on the lookout for that beauty but no luck so far. Thank you for sharing that image. Steve

Hi MB, The coral roots that I saw initially were just off a paved walking trail and off a pounded dirt trail. But they were still under a Douglas fir canopy. I've been exploring areas off the trails and have found more plants. And because coralroots will skip a bloom season, I've found spots...

Hi SS, Perfect, now I understand. Yes, this is a real rabbit hole... I've been wrestling with these literally for weeks. There could even be some hybrids between varieties in the mix. Some authorities describe albino plants as simply alternative colorations (and therefore the ozettensis...

Hi SS, I have Pojar and Mackinnon at my elbow as I type. I had considered the striped coralroot as a possibility (shoot, that would be 3 species in 50'...). But I am pretty sure that the weird one is not the striped coralroot. The widths of the petals and sepals of the weird one are far too...

Local diversity of coralroot orchids, Part 2 of 2. A closer look at diversity in coralroot orchids. I saw my first coralroot orchid about a month ago. It emerged as a solitary inflorescence within an inch or two of the dried remains of last year’s stem and capsules. I was actually...

Coralroot orchids, Part 1 of 2. [Heavy on very cool core plant biology.] For over a month, I’ve fallen into a rabbit hole regarding coralroot orchids. I have made eight trips to locate and photograph them along the trails of the Evergreen State College and the Ralph Munro Trail near my house...

More does and fawns. While the birth window for the local deer isn’t over yet, I suspect that most of the does have given birth to their fawns. It appears that the increase in the local mob is on the low side, one doe/fawn pair and another does with a twin fawns (with bad cases of the...