Author: Emily Kolkemo

Food/Travel

Juicy Grilled Albacore

STORY BY JENNIFER BURNS BRIGHT In a modern version of an ancient Roman recipe, albacore tuna grills up moist and pretty in healthy summer wraps. James Beard famously proclaimed it tasted better canned than fresh. Shaped like a silvery, shimmery bullet, albacore tuna has been fished commercially on the West […]

Outdoor

Remarkable Redwoods

STORY AND PHOTOS BY MICHAEL KEW Head down to the Chetco River, or to a more remote trail southeast of Brookings, to enjoy a hike in Oregon’s only naturally occurring coastal redwoods. Ten years ago, National Geographic magazine published “The Tallest Trees,” a tale of the Redwood Transect, a yearlong, […]

Culture/History, News

Cultural Site Returned to Clatsop-Nehalem Confederated Tribes

The North Coast Land Conservancy recently transferred ownership of historical tribal lands at Neawanna Point Habitat Reserve—18.6 acres of saltmarsh and Sitka spruce forest on the Necanicum Estuary at the north end of Seaside—to the Clatsop-Nehalem Confederated Tribes. Known to the Clatsop people as Ne-ah-coxie, or “place of little pines,” […]