By Steve Midway As many of us in the U.S. prepare for the Thanksgiving holiday later this week, a litany of traditional foods comes to mind: turkey, stuffing, mashed potatoes, cranberry sauce, pumpkin pie. Indeed—in some form or another—many of these foods were present at the first Thanksgiving. However, conspicuously absent from both the traditional…
Month: November 2013
Top 5 Most Poisonous and Venomous Fish!
By Dana Sackett Many TV shows and nature guides have been dedicated to educating the public on the most poisonous and venomous spiders, snakes and even frogs, but what about fish? Unlike spiders or snakes, we rarely hear about which fish are the most poisonous (or venomous). This week we are dedicating our blog post…
The Swimming Dead: Videos of Zombie Fish
By Patrick Cooney Like an underwater horror show, I filmed dead fish swimming amongst the living last week in a coastal river of western Washington. Or at least, the zombie fish looked like they were dead. Nowhere is the “Circle of Life” more apparent than in a river during salmon spawning season. Years after leaving the comforts of freshwater…
Song of Summers Past
By Craig Springer, Guest Blogger With this autumn’s leaves shedding, it gives one pause for all those summers that have slipped downstream. Sun-drenched memories are joyful like an Allman Brothers song. Don’t fly mister bluebird, I’m just walking down the road. Early morning sunshine tells me all I need to know. In memory, the buzz…
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