A grander vision for Illahee Preserve
I wrote last week about the effort to expand Illahee Preserve by 36 acres. For the preserve’s advocates, it’s a vitally important expansion on property that has long been eyed for development. The...
View ArticleFundraising falling short for Illahee Preserve expansion
The campaign to expand Illahee Preserve Heritage Park is running out of time. Unless about $330,000 is raised in less than two weeks, a coveted woodland on the preserve’s east edge will become a...
View ArticleIllahee Preserve’s long shot pays off
Photo: IllaheePreserve.org A last-minute change to the state’s capital budget is making Illahee Preserve Heritage Park’s expansion look like a dream that might come true. Budget-makers grabbed...
View ArticleIllahee Preserve will expand
I would not have bet that the backers of Illahee Preserve would raise more than $30,000 over the last four days. When I called Jim Aho yesterday to check on the fundraising, I expected to hear a...
View ArticleIt’s still snowy at Green Mountain
The snow’s still sticking around in the “high elevations” of Kitsap. Here’s snowy scene at Green Mountain State Forest (Gold Creek Trailhead) on Friday. Some of the beaver ponds had ice thick enough...
View ArticleIllahee’s jumping with squid jiggers
Illahee has been especially good to squid jiggers this winter. Jim Aho, an Illahee port commissioner, sent some photos showing how busy the dock has been with hearty nighttime jiggers. “Evidently the...
View ArticleOlympic Mountain Rescue fundraising for promo film
As you may have read, Bremerton-based Olympic Mountain Rescue will host the national conference for mountain rescuers in June. OMR hopes to produce a two- to three-minute promotional film in time to...
View ArticleTest your Elwha knowledge, win tickets to “Return of the River”
On Friday evening, the Kitsap Sun will host a screening of “Return of the River,” a documentary about the Elwha dam removal project. The show starts at 6.m. at the Admiral Theatre in downtown...
View ArticleSellout crowd for ‘Return of the River’
Thanks everyone who turned out for Friday’s sell-out showing of “Return of the River” in downtown Bremerton. The Kitsap Sun hosted the screening as an added feature in our ongoing coverage of the...
View ArticleName that mountaineer: OC needs help ID-ing photos from the George Martin...
George Martin George Martin was good at making history. Keeping a detailed account of that history? Not so much. Martin, as I detailed in Sunday’s paper, was a pioneer in outdoor education. He founded...
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