MOSES LAKE -- A Moses Lake boy won and a Tri-Cities youth placed second in the 11-14 age group at the Washington State Junior Bassmasters 2009 championships last weekend at Moses Lake.
Tanner Boday, 11, fishing for the Tri-Cities River Runners, had a two-day total of 23.30 pounds. Boday, of Moses Lake, just turned 11 in September to meet the age requirements.
In second was Grant Green, 14, of the Tri-Cities, also fishing for the River Runners. Green's two-day total was 14.06 pounds.
Boday and Chase Heaton of Spokane, who won the 15-18 age division, will represent Washington in the 2010 BASS Federation Nation Western Divisional in May in Arizona.
Wilderness sought for Devil's Staircase
GRANTS PASS, Ore. -- The U.S. Forest Service has endorsed designation of a new wilderness area in Oregon's Coast Range known for a remote waterfall called the Devil's Staircase.
A bill sponsored by U.S. Rep. Peter DeFazio, D-Ore. and U.S. Sen. Ron Wyden, D-Ore., would create the Devil's Staircase Wilderness on 30,000 acres of federal land east of Reedsport, and designate Wasson and Franklin creeks as wild rivers.
Red tide causes shellfish gathering closure
OLYMPIA -- The Washington Department of Health has closed much of northern Puget Sound to recreational shellfish gathering after finding dangerous levels of the toxin that causes paralytic shellfish poisoning.
Tests found so-called "red tide" toxin levels up to 100 times the closure level.
The closure affects all of Whatcom and San Juan counties; Deception Pass, Fidalgo Bay, Samish Bay, Sinclair, and Cypress Islands in Skagit County; the northern part of Whidbey Island from Keystone Harbor to Strawberry Point; and Discovery Bay in Clallam and Jefferson counties.
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Corps announces cutbacks at recreation areas
Corps announces cutbacks at recreation areas
WALLA WALLA -- Budget cuts are forcing the Army Corps of Engineers to shorten operating seasons at some recreation areas -- including three in the Tri-City area -- and close or transfer others in the Walla Walla District.
They also are prompting the Corps to call on volunteers to help operate the parks to keep them open.
The changes are necessary because the district is expecting a 9 percent, or $669,000, decrease in its recreation budget in the coming fiscal year, according to a Corps news release issued Friday.
Darlyne E. Staat
Darlyne E. Staat
Darlyne E. Staat, 81, of Kennewick, died Dec. 18 at Callaway Gardens in Kennewick.
She was born in Crofton, Neb., and lived in Moses Lake for many years before moving to the Tri-Cities four years ago.
She was the retired owner and operator of Staat's Furniture.
Tampa Bay continues to work with Connolly
Tampa Bay continues to work with Connolly
The Tampa Bay Lightning has until the end of February to decide if they are going to send Brett Connolly back to junior hockey — which means the Tri-City Americans.
Tampa Bay still is giving Connolly time to improve his game at the NHL level, according to this story in the Tampa Bay Times.
BLUE MOUNTAINS: Tussock moth infestation found
BLUE MOUNTAINS: Tussock moth infestation found
The state of Washington has discovered a new infestation of Douglas-fir tussock moths in the Blue Mountains of Washington and Oregon.
Light defoliation was mapped across 9,000 acres of the Umatilla National Forest, with most of that in Washington.
Most of the defoliation occurred in the Wenaha-Tucannon Wilderness Area, but it may spread and increase in severity this year.
Quad-cities water right pact reached
Quad-cities water right pact reached
State officials and the Tri-Cities and West Richland have reached an agreement on getting Pasco the water it needs now and the water the other cities will need in the future.
Officials say the new pact will put to rest a decade of disputes over the so-called quad-cities water right from the Columbia River.
The water rights from the Lake Roosevelt Incremental Release Program will be noninterruptible, which means that even when a drought is declared, the cities can continue to use that water, said Joye Redfield-Wilder, communication manager for the Department of Ecology in Yakima.
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