RIDGEFIELD — For most Southwest Washington residents, May 18 will always be known as the Mount St. Helens anniversary. But on the same date, 15 years before that fateful 1980 eruption, something else ...

Undated photo of hunters surveying their decoy setup from a blind at Ridgefield National Wildlife Refuge in Washington state. Brent Lawrence / USFWS The top manager of four national wildlife refuges ...

Vancouver Audubon recently released the results of its annual Christmas bird count. On Dec. 15, volunteers counted 93,302 birds in a single day. Results were published in the organization’s March ...