Articles from the May 15, 2012 edition

Rick Nelson, Wah. Co. Eagle|May 15, 2012

Just in time for the opening of steelhead angling season on Wednesday, the Wahkiakum County Board of Commissioners adjusted on Tuesday the closure boundaries of Steamboat Slough Road. Commissioners ordered the road closed earlier this spring to keep the public away from a spot where the Columbia is eroding the dike and threatening to create a landslide that would wash away the shoreline and flood the Julia Butler Hansen National Wildlife Refuge for the Columbia White-tailed Deer. The eastern closure is near the erosion site, but the western...