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THE GORGE — White Salmon police officers responded to a small bear standing on Jewett Boulevard May 30, apparently unafraid of the passing veh…

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Steider watched polar bears sleep, dig, scratch, sniff and swim. Here, bears pause to show off their big webbed feet and thick fur.

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The six bears encountered by local photographer Linda Steider are among just 300 remaining in Svalbard, with ice there melting seven times fas…

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I went to Svalbard to see polar bears before they disappear. It was a profound experience, and the greatest adventure of my lifetime. For 12 days, I was in constant wonder and awe, barely able to breathe while enveloped in arctic splendor. I boarded a 12-passenger expedition ship that moved north through pack ice, then along many fjords around the island of Spitsbergen with top-tier conservation photographers guiding us.

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STEVENSON — At 76, author Linda Jo Hunter is hard to catch up with. If she’s not out paddling in the Sea of Cortez (winters in Baja), she’s in the deep woods of Washington (her summer home), trailing a bear on her eBike to discover what it’s eating and when.

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On Saturday, July 9, 2022, Dana Michelle (Pope) Clark, loving wife and mother, sister, niece, cousin, and friend, passed away. 

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WHITE SALMON — Bear sightings have been the talk of White Salmon as of late, so the city brought along the area’s wildlife conflict specialist to explain the situation.