What’s Happening: 7/10/12

BIRD ALERTThere are now three active great egret nests in the riparian area where Toppenish creek crosses Lateral C road. Birders this week observed that one had three young birds, actively being fed from the open beak of the adult that flew into the nest and another nest had two young ones. The third nest [...]

Often, finger pointers are amiss in their aim

By ROB PHILLIPSNorthwest Sports Over the 20 years or so that I have been writing this column I have received many comments from readers.  Most have been complimentary, while a few have been less than so. I have had people basically accuse me of lying, and others who have accused me of plagiarizing some one [...]

What do you see? 1967 Patterson-Gimlin film remains a controversial subject

By SCOTT SANDSBERRYYAKIMA HERALD-REPUBLIC Perhaps no film in history, with the obvious exception of the Zapruder film capturing the assassination of President John F. Kennedy, has been more exhaustively analyzed and dissected, celebrated and derided than Roger Patterson’s grainy 1967 footage of … what? Determining how one fills in that blank and answers the question [...]

True believers: People of all types are certain they have encountered Sasquatch

A teenage hunter who watched it through his rifle scope for longer than a half-hour. A trumpet player who surprised it — well, the surprise was certainly mutual — at the chicken coop behind his Blewett Pass cabin. A construction contractor who had recorded the details of hundreds of sightings before, finally, having one of [...]

Naches Ranger District worker has heard it all, including his own Sasquatch experience

When it comes to Sasquatch tales in the Cascade foothills northwest of Yakima, Doug Jenkins has pretty much heard it all at the front desk or on the phone at the Naches Ranger Station. “You can pretty much tell the ones that are believable,” Jenkins says. “I’ve had people who saw bear and say they [...]

Phillips: Now’s the time for sockeye and summer chinook

Last week the prognosticators who watch and count the many different types of fish that migrate up the Columbia River quietly upped their run forecast of this year’s sockeye salmon to 550,000. On some rivers up in British Columbia and in Alaska, a half million sockeye is no big deal. For the Columbia, this year’s [...]

7/3/12 Outdoors What’s Happening

Target-shooting hours restricted Target shooting on the Wenas Wildlife Area near Selah and Ellensburg will be restricted to the hours from sunrise to 11 a.m. July 1 through Sept. 30 because of the chance of wildfires. The new restriction will be posted at access points to the Wenas Wildlife Area and in traditional target-shooting areas. [...]

On the tracks of Sasquatch

Footprints turn skeptics into believers || YAKIMA, Wash. — Jeff Meldrum is a foot guy. If you want to understand how humans and some apes have evolved to walk on two feet — how the tendons and muscles flex, how the bones work together, how the weight is distributed — Meldrum is your man. A [...]

Sasquatch researchers face unwilling peers

YAKIMA, Wash. — It’s easy not to believe in Bigfoot. It’s harder to accept the possibility, and harder still to go public with that acceptance. Fingerprint expert Jimmy Chilcutt says he has “had that used against me, or tried to use against me, in court.” Members of the jury, how seriously can you take the [...]

Northwest Sportsman: Walleyes looking up for anglers

YAKIMA, Wash. — In the heart of salmon and steelhead country, the comparatively ugly walleye is, well, under-appreciated by many local anglers. Because the walleye aren’t big fighters, and aren’t as large in size as most salmon, they are often times overlooked. But what many others in the region have discovered, fishing for walleye can [...]

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