Marblemount News

Bald eagles return Vistors can view and learn about bald eagles along the Skagit River.

Every winter migrating Bald Eagles descend upon the Skagit River to feed on spawning chum salmon, while volunteers help the public learn about them.

Bald eagles have made their annual return to the Skagit River Valley. Starting Saturday, and through Jan.

Jonny Xu, Nicole Leung, Teena Liang and Shu Min Lin watch eagles last winter along Washington's Skagit River.

Snow geese fly over a farmer's field Tuesday along Fir Island Road, west of Conway.

Northwest Washington steelheading options will tighten even more in the next three days with emergency closures on portions of the Cascade and North Fork Stillagaumish River.

La Taberna del Alabardero , the elegant Spanish eatery on First Avenue in Belltown, is adding cochinillo --roast suckling pig--to its Sunday brunch and dinner menus.

Every year the upper Skagit River becomes a confluence of bald eagles, rotting salmon carcasses and people.

Janet, who requested her last name remain anonymous, of Mount Vernon shows how to bundle up - plants too - to protect against harsh, and cold, winter weather.

A deep fog hangs over Desolation Peak. On the very top of the mountain, looking like some ancient Chinese scroll painting, sits an impossibly tiny hut shrouded in the mist.

Fall is here, and yet many people have to wonder: Where have are all those brilliant gold, yellow and orange leaves been? Local botanists agree that the leaves are a little late in turning this year.

Jon Riedel and I stand at a trailhead that leads to Washington's Mount Baker with nine high school students who have come to the Pacific Northwest for a month to learn about climate change.

The pain is still very real. Jennifer Holloman says she feels it every day. "The community has lost a lot of its trust, it's such a small community, a close-knit community," said Holloman.

Cascade River Road will be closed for the season at milepost 12.7 beginning Sept.

MARBLEMOUNT, Wash. - A 36-year-old Portland man injured in a fall in Washington's North Cascades National Park has been rescued.

Skagit County search and rescue workers launched two searches Wednesday in the North Cascades Mountains for two missing men.

Skagit County search and rescue workers launched two searches Wednesday in the North Cascades Mountains for two missing men.

Lightning storms passed through the North Cascades Saturday igniting seven fires on the Mount Baker-Snoqualmie National Forest.

Wildflowers above Rainy Pass, Lake Ann and Washington's North Cascades Highway. Northern Washington's rugged mountains can be brutes to climb because of long approaches and technical difficulties.

A Sedro-Woolley man was in critical condition at Harborview Medical Center on Tuesday afternoon after losing control of his pickup truck near Marblemount and striking a tree, according to hospital and State Patrol officials.