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Coming soon, maybe, to a Washington state park: Navy SEAL training exercises

By ABBIE SHULL | The News Tribune | Published: January 21, 2021 (Tribune News Service) The Navy is seeking a permit to conduct special operations training exercises in 28 Washington State Parks, despite concerns from park users over the creepiness of the proposal. The Navy plans to conduct five types of special operations training in Washington parks day or night for up to five years. Types of training include: Insertion and extraction training where trainees might approach or depart an area using submersible craft or watercraft. Combat swimming or diver and swimmer training where trainees would be confined to the ocean or inland water areas.

Outdoors Report: WeyCo opens 6,500 acres to public through WDFW partnership

Like a sapling left standing after a clearcut, the public lands of Southwest Washington are slowly growing one ring at a time. Recently, the Washington Department of Fish and Wildlife confirmed that 6,557 acres of Weyerhaeuser timberlands have been opened to the public through their private lands access program. Those acres are located primarily in the Cascade foothills south of Mount St. Helens and on the east side of Interstate 5. One of the four parcels is located just southeast of Yale Reservoir along the Clark/Skamania county line. Other parcels are located in Game Management Units 568 (Washougal), 572 (Siouxon), and 568 (South Clark County). In those areas, access permits will no longer be required for visitors but the use of motorized vehicles is still prohibited.

Outdoors Report: Christmas Bird Count seeks help finding fine feathered friends

As far as outdoors hobbies go, birding has a particularly low bar to clear for admission. Essentially, if you can see a bird and point at it, you’re in. Even then, if you’ve got a good enough ear, a person could always denote the presence and origin of a bird just by the features of its call. Of course, birders can always get better at birding. It’s always possible to take better notes, or memorize more species, or fine-tune field identification methods. Moreover, the longer one pays attention to the birds the better their luck becomes. Over time, a person develops a sense for where the pretty birds like to congregate at various times of the year. And other times, a bald eagle or an albatross might just fall right into your lap, or, at least very nearby.

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