"The productivity of the lagoon is stunning. The glistening bulbs of contracted anemones await the tide, each in a perfect mudhole."
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Chris Rurik, KP News
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8/28/24
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Washington State Parks secured a grant to fund improvements at the Haley property on the shores of Case Inlet.
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Chris Rurik, KP News
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8/28/24
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The vibrant diversity and unique adaptations of the Ericaceae family, a group of plants thriving in nutrient-poor environments with the help of specialized fungi, bring color to northwest forests.
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Chris Rurik, KP News
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7/31/24
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It’s July. In the late evening, when a touch of moisture returns to the sky and I linger in the dregs of the day’s light, worn out by the farm, an occasional nighthawk adds its lonesome …
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Chris Rurik, KP News
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6/26/24
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Life gets interesting when you take the time to get to know your wild neighbors.
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Chris Rurik
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5/29/24
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Public trails will be built on the 60-acre property adjacent to the undeveloped Haley State Park land. “It’s what a Northwest forest should look like.”
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Chris Rurik, KP News
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5/29/24
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The rubber boa is a non-venomous, constrictor snake native to the American West, known for its smooth, velvety skin, slow-moving behavior, and unique defensive tactics.
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Chris Rurik, KP News
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5/1/24
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Wauna resident Bruce Murray has officially adopted the spit under the Adopt-a-Highway Program, which has sponsors for vegetation management as well as trash pickup.
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Chris Rurik, KP News
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5/1/24
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Four parcels donated to Great Peninsula Conservancy extend the preserve to the Pitt Passage shoreline.
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Chris Rurik, KP News
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3/27/24
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Watch a nettle emerge from the spring soil and tell me it doesn’t remind you of a butterfly crawling from its chrysalis.
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Chris Rurik, KP News
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3/27/24
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It was around New Year’s when Adam DeLeo made the discovery. Cabin fever propelled him into a local forest he had only visited once or twice and wanted to know better.
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Chris Rurik, KP News
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2/28/24
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Forestry education is coming to the Key Peninsula. Washington State University’s extension forestry service will offer its flagship nine-week forest stewardship course to local landowners.
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Chris Rurik, KP News
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2/28/24
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“This is crazy,” Amy Amos keeps saying as we wade up Little Minter Creek, stepping over logs and bundles of willow branches until we are directly under the Key Peninsula Highway.
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Chris Rurik, KP News
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1/31/24
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It is past midnight. A full moon struggles to cut through the mist that rises from Henderson Bay. The night’s work has just wrapped, and though we are stiff and half-frozen, a little jackknife has the naturalists I’m with in stitches.
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Chris Rurik, KP News
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12/27/23
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A new chapter has begun for an old farmhouse at the head of Glen Cove.
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Chris Rurik, KP News
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11/30/23
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For all our handwringing about the sun and what it is or isn’t doing, it is the moon, lustrous and unsought, that has the power to haunt the mind’s eye.
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Chris Rurik, KP News
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11/30/23
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Restoration of salmon habitat at Whiteman Cove is set to begin in 2024, following a $6.9 million appropriation in the state capital budget.
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Chris Rurik, KP News
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11/2/23
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It is November. Gullies are soggy. The exact edges of creeks are hard to define. The last leaves are limp yellow rags that drag across my shoulders as I make my way downhill.
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Chris Rurik, KP News
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11/2/23
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Dusk, late summer. A deer works the edge of the pasture. A lonely frog, peeping, is answered by a cricket. As the light slips, a bat skitters in and out of the shrinking circle I can see.
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Chris Rurik, KP News
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9/27/23
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The bones look like driftwood from a distance, half-submerged at the high tide line. Binoculars reveal them to be ancient stone artifacts. Or so it seems. This whale carcass is hard to believe.
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Chris Rurik, KP News
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9/27/23
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