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A journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step.

I believe that’s called the ”Ukrainian” river now…

That’s good news, or at least a good start. Any idea what the 17 streams will be? Eventually I would like to see Regs that, instead of specifying which steams are C&R, say ALL streams flowing into the Puget Sound are C&R, EXCEPT the following…

I love this thread. Small streams capture my imagination more than any other water, even though I don't fish them as much as I used to. Here are three shots of a small stream here in WA that shall remain nameless. I'm looking forward to getting back there this summer.

I like the GH/Kaiser model in theory for the reasons outlined by SurfnFish, and in practice, because care and insurance are handled by the same organization. I loved my primary care physician, but in that system the PCP is the gatekeeper for any specialty care and I met resistance more than...

Plenty of info on seasoning in the thread above. So, I won't add to that, but will add a personal anecdote. 50 years ago (exactly, I think) I rented my first apartment and needed some cooking utensils. In my parents' basement, hanging on a nail in the floor joists, was an old cast iron...

As others have said, DVR has made TV tolerable again. I can't imagine, for example, watching a football game and having to sit through all the commercial breaks. News that's 20 minutes later before I start watching, is still "news."

And believe me the health insurance industry wants it to stay that way.

I feel for you Jojo. I recently retired and had to go through this after having health care through my work (UW). I have a Ph.D. My wife is a retired social work case manager. This was one of the most incomprehensible and anxiety provoking things we have been through in a long time and we're...

I grew up in a small town in rural upstate NY. I earned six varsity letters in football, basketball, and baseball and played baseball when I went to college. I recall we played soccer a couple times in phys ed class. The teacher (and football coach) would count off 11 players for each side...

Olympic coast; Cape Alava loop. Sea lion carcass and whale skull.

Those who want to compare MLS or the Sounders to top leagues in Europe as an excuse to not support American professional soccer simply tells me that either 1) you are from Europe and have a legacy team that you support, or 2) you're not really in to soccer. As an old rock n roll song once said...

I used to listen to my parents talk about WW II and the anxiety and fear that war in Europe created here in the US. Now it is our generation's turn to witness war in Europe. Let's hope someone can find a way to bring this to an end without the global conflict that erupted twice in the last...

1996 at the bar in Havana where Hemingway used to hang out. Check!

Fabulous post! I love the natural history notes as much as the excellent photography. But a question. How did you know the geese were Canadian? They could just as easily have been American. Just joshing' you; you probably know as well as I do that the correct name is "Canada goose." I, and...

I haven't been watching much of these Olympics, but was alerted by a facebook post that the son of a botanical colleague of mine won Gold in men's "freeski slopestyle," something I had never even heard of. He had an amazing final run, apparently executing tricks he had been working on, but had...

The rivers of Argentina have crustaceans called pancora that are like crawfish, but are about as wide as long. I put a glass bead on a bit of fly line backing and melt the end to form a ball so the bead won't slide off. Carapace is a pheasant rump feather; claws are India hen feathers.

First day on a remote stretch of a well-known Idaho river several years ago, fish were rising, but not taking anything I had to offer. There was no evident hatch. Taking a break during the hot part of the afternoon, my buddy (and fellow forum member) said he had picked up a few on a small...

I got the same impression as Paige. I also saw the piece on the Sisters; I can imagine the folks who monitor volcanoes would like to have such sophisticated instruments on Glacier Peak. Personal anecdote. One of my most memorable days in the Cascades was a solo one-day traverse of Glacier Peak...

I love the westslope fishing in that part of the world.