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Rodents of Restoration
Busy as a beaver is not just a quaint phrase. These rodents can transform a landscape in a matter of days, creating fastidiously managed dams, ...
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Finding the Perfect Pace
Lessons from Unexpected Teachers Online influencers, running group coaches, my much-faster friends: all have impacted my running life with their words and actions. Recently, I’ve ...
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Inland NW Trail & Outdoor News
Outdoorsy Events Let Your Voice Be Heard! The Blue Mountains region, consisting of the Umatilla, Wallowa-Whitman, and Malheur National Forests, is currently undergoing a revision ...
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The Full Moon Fiasco
The moon’s gravitational pull causes the rising and falling of tides in our planetary oceans; we humanoid creatures composed of 70% water have no hope ...
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For the Love of a Place
It had been five years since I’d hiked to the lake. It was a modest alpine lake in the northeast Cascades, tucked in the Lake ...
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DIY Wild Fruit Leather
Summertime is berry time—the time when all plants and trees are coming into their full expression in their yearly life cycle with fruit maturing into ...
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5 Ideas to Motivate Teens to Love the Outdoors
My kids were toddlers when I pitched the idea of an “Outdoor Family” story to Out There’s publishers. That was nearly 10 years ago, and ...
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State of Washington State’s Wolves
As my colleague pointed out, “It’s good to write about wolves; everyone is interested because everyone has an opinion.” Wolves were functionally extinct in Washington ...
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Gertrude Bell and the Lesser-Known Badass
Before we had Red Bull sponsorship and Title Nine, before women wore pants or even had the vote, Gertrude Bell was riding camels through Arabia ...
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