Newsletters

 

 

 

 

 

Published twice a year, the Voice of the Wild Olympics is loaded with current events and management issues affecting the Olympic Peninsula. This newsletter is included with your annual membership.

 

All issues are in PDF.

 

Current Issue:

Vol. 34 No. 1: Spring-Summer 2026 – Planning Moves Ahead for Hurricane Ridge Lodge

 

Past Issues:

Vol. 33 No. 2: Fall-Winter 2025 – Lawsuit Challenges Failure to Protect Olympic Marmots

Vol. 33 No. 1: Spring-Summer 2025 – America’s best idea at risk from one of the worst

Vol. 32 No. 2: Fall-Winter 2024 – Petition to Place Olympic Marmots on Endangered Species List

Vol. 32 No. 1: Spring-Summer 2024 – Building a Tradition of Ecosystem Restoration

Vol. 31 No. 2: Fall-Winter 2023 – Monitoring Olympic’s Martens

Vol. 31 No. 1: Spring-Summer 2023 – OPA at 75: A Storied Past and a Vision for the Future

Vol. 30 No. 2: Fall-Winter 2022 – Toward Returning Wolves to ONP

Vol. 30 No. 1: Spring-Summer 2022 – Conditions on the Olympic Coast National Marine Sanctuary

Vol. 29 No. 2: Fall & Winter 2021 – Fisher Reintroduction Bolstered in the Olympics

Vol. 29 No. 1: Spring-Summer 2021 – Welcome to Olympic Park Advocates

Vol. 28 No. 3: Fall 2020 – Wild Olympics Included in Defense Appropriations Bill

Vol. 28 No. 2: Spring 2020 – Olympic National Park Reopens in Phases

Vol. 28 No. 1: Winter 2020 – Wild Olympics Bill Is Passed Out of Key House Committee

Vol. 27 No. 2: Spring 2019 – Last Call for the Enchanted Valley Chalet: Your Voices Are Needed

Vol. 27 No. 1: Winter 2019 – Fast-track Elwha Road Project Shortcuts Participation and Review

Vol. 26 No. 1: Spring 2018 – Park’s FInal Plan Will Remove Non-native Mountain Goats

Vol. 25 No. 2: Fall 2017 – Olympic National Park Mountain Goat Management Plan

Vol. 25 No. 1: Spring 2017 – DNR Inadequate Marbled Murrelet Long-Term Conservation Strategy

Vol. 24 No. 2: Fall 2016 – Strong Public Support for Northwest Forest Plan

Vol. 24 No. 1: Spring 2016 – Wild Olympics Bill Gets U.S. Senate Hearing

Vol. 23 No. 2: Fall 2015 – 2016: National Park Service Centennial a Critical Year for ONP

Vol. 23 No. 1: Spring 2015 – A Huge Environmental Mistake Coming to the Peninsula?

Vol. 22 No. 3: Fall 2014 – Navy Planning Perm. Electromagnetic Warfare Range on West Side of Park

Vol. 22 No. 2: Spring 2014 – Park Announces Prelim. Alternatives for Wilderness Stewardship Plan

Vol. 22 No. 1: Winter 2014 – Olympics Bill Introduced in Congress

Vol. 21 No. 2: Summer 2013 – Olympic National Park at 75: A Planetary Legacy

Vol. 21 No. 1: Winter 2013 – Olympic National Park’s Wilderness Stewardship Plan

Vol. 20, No. 2: Fall 2012 – Olympic National Park Begins Work on Wilderness Plan

Vol. 20, No. 1: Summer 2012 – Dicks and Murray Introduce Wild Olympics Bill

Vol. 19, No. 2: Fall 2011 – Celebration of Elwha Dam Removal

Vol. 19, No. 1: Spring 2011 – New Wilderness for Olympic National Forest

Vol. 18, No. 2: Summer 2010 – The Case for Olympic Park Additions

Vol. 18, No. 1: Winter 2010 – Conservation Vision for a Wild Olympics

Vol. 17, No. 1: Winter 2009 – More Fishers Return to Olympics

Vol. 16, No. 2: Summer 2008 – Dosewallips Road Plan Threatens Ancient Trees & Salmon Habitat

Vol. 16, No. 1: Winter 2008 – Fishers Are Returning to Olympic National Park!

Vol. 15, No. 3: Fall 2007 – Fisher to Return to Olympic Forests

Vol. 15, No. 2: Summer 2007 – Park Draft EIS to Reconstruct Dosewallips Road

Vol. 15, No. 1: Winter/Spring 2007 – OPA Backs Park on Queets Road Alternative

Vol. 14, No. 2: Summer 2006 – Park’s General Management Plan Needs Your Help

Vol. 14, No. 1: Winter 2006 – Proposed Reintroduction of the Fisher in Olympic’s Forests

Vol. 13, No. 3: Fall 2005 – Court Rules New Shelters Illegal in Park Wilderness

Vol. 13, No. 2: Summer 2005 – Olympic Ecosystem: A Planetary Resource

Vol. 13, No. 1: Spring 2005 –Old Ranch Has “Story to Tell”

Vol. 12, No. 2: Fall 2004 – OPA Sues Park Service Over Shelter Flights in Olympic Wilderness

Vol. 12, No. 1: Spring 2004 – Challenging Decision to Rebuild Dosewallips Road

Vol. 11, No. 3: Fall 2003 – Taking the Pulse of the Olympic Ecosystem

Vol. 11, No. 2: Summer 2003 – Negotiation Averts Legal Battle Over Snow Salmon Timber Sale

Vol. 11, No. 1: Spring 2003 – Olympic National Park Previews 20-year Management Plan

Vol. 10, No. 3: Fall 2002 – Park Soon to Release Alternatives for 20-year Management Plan

Vol. 10, No. 2: Spring 2002 – Natural History of a Coastal Prairie in Olympic National Park

Vol. 10, No. 1: Winter 2002 – Park Begins Work on Twenty-year General Management Plan

Vol. 9, No. 2: Spring 2001 – Wild Washington Campaigns to Protect Olympic Roadless Areas

Vol. 9, No. 1: Winter 2001 – Congressman Dicks Favors Removing Both Elwha Dams

Vol. 8, No. 2: Summer 2000 – Forest Service Roadless Area Proposal Falls Short

Vol. 8, No. 1: Spring 2000 – Elwha Ceremony Marks Beginning of Salmon Restoration

Vol. 7, No. 3: Fall 1999 – Clinton Vows to Protect 40 Million Acres of National Forest Roadless Lands

Vol. 7, No. 2: Summer 1999 – The Continuing Saga of the Cushman Hydroelectric Project and Tacoma

Vol. 7, No. 1: February 1999 – Polls Show Oly Peninsula Residents Favor Wolf Reintroduction Into Park

Vol. 6, No. 2: October 1998 – OPA 50th Anniversary Dinner

50th Anniversary Edition Voice of the Wild Olympics: 1998 – 128 pages

Vol. 5, No. 2: November 1997 – The Elwha River Restoration

Vol. 5, No. 1: April 1997 – Will Wolves Return to the Olympics?

Vol. 4, No. 2: November 1996 – Park Service Punts on Jet Ski Ban for Lake Crescent

Vol. 4, No. 1: June 1996 – Park Proceeding Toward Cushman Land Trade

Vol. 3, No. 2: December 1995 – Shameless Congressional Raid on National Park System Foiled

Vol. 3, No. 1: May 1995 – Park Service’s Preferred Alternative: Remove the Non-Native Goats

Vol. 2, No. 3: December 1994 – Restoring the Wild Elwha Salmon

Vol. 2, No. 2: June 1994 – Olympic Coast National Marine Sanctuary

Vol. 2, No. 1: January 1994 – Ancient Forests: Option 9 Revisited

Vol. 1, No. 2: February 1993 – The Elwha Victory

Vol. 1, No. 1: October 1992 – Congress Passes Elwha Legislation

Vol. 10, No. 1: October 1988 – Celebrating 50 Years of Olympic National Park

Vol. 9, No. 1: Winter 1987 – Olympic Forest Plan Would Decimate Old Growth