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Articles by Brent Lawrence
Gold bar / Sultan WA
Hello Everyone! Finally obtained my survey on a nice little lot right off of HWY 2 in Sultan, WA probably a few hundred yards from the infamous Eagle Rock Falls. My property is right off the Skykomish River, If you live in Snohomish County or the surrounding area you know this location perfectly. Every summer something happens or you notice the biggest line of traffic because of cars parked right off of the HWY.
Don’t mind the teeth as Pacific lampreys use their mouths as suction cups at dam
In USFWS video posted Sept. 19, 2022, lamprey use their mouth as suction cups. Pacific lamprey can migrate from oceans to freshwater breeding grounds, such this Columbia River dam earlier in summer.
As the heat wave rolled in, fishery managers scrambled to save salmon in the Columbia River
By Brent Lawrence U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service Mike Clark and a team of fisheries professionals watched the weather forecast for late June and knew it meant serious problems for the more than 7 million salmon being reared in the Columbia River Gorge National fish hatcheries. Each day the weather forecast for the Pacific Northwest brought increasingly dire predictions. What started as 104 degrees soon became a forecast of 108 degrees ticked upward. First 111, then 115 and finally 117 degrees.
Portrait of a Poacher
Kathy Spengler needed to paint a picture. Not a paint-by-numbers type portrait, but one that had to be closer to a masterpiece – the portrait of a poacher. A special agent with the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service’s Office of Law Enforcement based in Wilsonville, Oregon, in 2018 Spengler inherited an ongoing wildlife poaching investigation. There were numerous parts and pieces of evidence that reached back many years, and the potential crime scene covered thousands of acres of rough, remote terrain.
DU Helps Honor Veterans in Washington
by Brent Lawrence, U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service From an ADA-accessible blind at Ridgefield National Wildlife Refuge, Sal Trujillo watched as the first rays of sun peeked above the surrounding hills. Flocks of mallards, pintails and tundra swans soon filled the sky. Trujillo and 10 other U.S. military veterans celebrated Veterans Day with their first waterfowl hunt as a part of the inaugural Ridgefield National Wildlife Refuge Veterans’ Waterfowl Hunt.
Wildlife Refuges Are a Haven for Wildlife and Public-Land Hunters
Some of the most sought-after hunting opportunities in the Pacific Northwest are on National Wildlife Refuges. Under the direction of the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, refuges provide an opportunity to combine fantastic hunting with the premium wildlife habitat. Hunts on National Wildlife Refuges are conducted in accordance with state wildlife agency rules and regulations.
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