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Weekly Outdoors & Environment Newsletter

Friday, April 11, 2008

3 things to do this weekend
Snow sports

Spring break is a great time for kids to cut fishing teeth
"Looks like we called it a draw today at Long's Pond. We lost some absolute bruisers today and wound up with one small fish. I had to grit my teeth as Megan and Seth lost two fish that were pushing 3 pounds or better. Yeah, yeah, do the good parent thing and let them learn. ... But man, it was painful to watch.

Anglers find spring chinook are biting in Columbia River
Skookumchuck: Winter steelhead fishing is slow.

Group warns of risks to national parks
A conservation group warned Tuesday that unless the White House and Congress provide more money to buy private lands within park boundaries, there could be logging at Washington state's Mount Rainier, commercial development in Valley Forge and similar problems at national parks from Golden Gate to Gettysburg.

There are a few places to grind your board at area skate parks
•What: Skateboard parks in Olympia and Centralia

Need to clear up your land? Hire nature's weed whacker
Monday was moving day for 10 goats that spent the past 10 days grazing on English ivy, blackberries and everything else they could reach in an overgrown backyard at the corner of Central Street and Fourth Avenue.

There are plenty of things to do that dont require a costly trip
Juncos and other songbirds will show up as well. If you want to see woodpeckers, such as northern flickers, put up a suet feeder.

Calendar of events
Participants meet at the Olympia Area Rowing Boathouse at Swantown Marina. There will be four sessions per course - on Saturday and Sunday mornings and Monday and Wednesday evenings.

Striped surfperch (South Sound marine life)
Striped surfperch (Embiotoca lateralis)

Environment briefs
See marine creatures at pier peer

Dispose of mercury at event
Don't toss out with the trash all of the good you've done for the environment this Earth Day. Instead, celebrate your efforts to protect the environment by gathering burned-out compact fluorescent lamps (CFLs) and other mercury-containing products, and bringing them to HazoHouse for our Earth Week mercury-collection event, open to residents and businesses. This year's event will take place April 18-21 and April 25-28.

Nonprofit preserves Scatter Creek land
The fish, wildlife, small streams, forests and wetlands within the upper Scatter Creek watershed have an ally in the Heernett Environmental Foundation.

Air agency marks 40 years
The local government responsible for enforcement of federal, state and local air quality laws just turned 40 years old.

Riders head into the woods
Capitol State Forest roared to life Saturday as hundreds of dirt bike and all-terrain vehicle enthusiasts ushered in another season of mud-splattered trail riding.

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