The 48th annual Pacific Northwest Sportsmen’s Show returns to the Portland Expo Center, 2060 N. Marine Dr., Portland, from Feb. 15 to 19. Find hundreds of fishing and hunting exhibitors, guides and outfitters, clothing, new gear, boats, ATV’s, tents, kayaks and experts as well as the Kids' Free Trout Lake. Public lands advocate and hunter […]

TreeSong Nature Awareness and Retreat Center will host an all-day birding trip to the Oregon Coast on Feb. 25. Instructor Laura Whittemore will lead participants in walking explorations of bays, estuaries, rocky shores and headlands while watching for coastal winter residents like scoters, murres, loons, grebes, oystercatchers, surfbirds and turnstones. Transportation will be via carpool […]

Friends of Trees is hosting a tree-planting in central Vancouver from 8:45 a.m. to 1 p.m. Feb. 25 in Arnada, Carter Park, Central Park, Esther Short, Fourth Plain Village, Fruit Valley, Hough, Hudson's Bay, Lincoln, Northwest, Rose Village, Shumway and West Minnehaha. Residents in those neighborhoods may purchase a tree to plant in their yards […]