In The News Archive

Salmon trail offers close view of spawning


By John Dodge | The Olympian • Published October 27, 2008

South Sound’s premier trail for watching salmon spawn is about to open to the public. – South Sound’s premier trail for watching salmon spawn is about to open to the public.

If you go
The Kennedy Creek Salmon Trail will [...]

Kennedy Creek Trail CLOSED


THANK YOU FOR ANOTHER SUCCESSFUL YEAR AT THE TRAIL!
We hope to see you again next year!
Kennedy Creek is one of the most productive salmon runs in South Puget Sound. Don’t miss out on this unique opportunity EVERY NOVEMBER to experience these wild salmon on the 1/2 mile, ADA accessible trail, with 11 viewing stations, [...]

Mine plan renews debate over land use


Published September 15, 2008

JOHN DODGE
A bid by Glacier Northwest to expand its sand and gravel mine in this historic village has reopened a decades-long land-use battle involving the Sequalitchew Creek Canyon, a conflict supposedly settled 15 years ago.
Glacier, one of the largest sand and gravel mining operations in the nation, wants to add 177 acres [...]

Make Way for Salmon on the Mashel


The Olympian, September 4, 2006.
Chester Allen
Two tracked excavators rumbled through the diverted, dry streambed of the Mashel River last week and dropped 40-foot trees and refrigerator-size boulders into a massive, muddy hole.
Another disaster for a river that’s taken a lot of punches during the past 100 years? Nope.
The excavators are [...]