Late every June, Debbie James starts looking for little clusters of flowers blooming from the tops of tall bulrushes in Lower Yakima Valley wetlands and along the Columbia River. The unusual weather ...

There are some funky-looking houseboats docked at Galilee Harbor, a kind of water-borne artists’ colony overlooking Sausalito’s Richardson Bay. Bobbing gently beside a boxy, light blue barn of a boat ...

In the shallow bay waters along the shore at Silver Strand State Beach on Saturday, small stingrays flitted back and forth as children played nearby in the sand. A few yards away, a large group of ...

For several months, cultural practitioner Diana Almendariz has been showing people how to use tule reeds to recreate a variety of Native American tools. This past Sunday, Almendariz worked with about ...

A Japanese explorer with plans to sail a traditional tule reed boat from the Bay Area to Hawaii next year is building a prototype in Sausalito. Jin Ishikawa began construction earlier this month at ...

Jin Ishikawa talks about the 30-foot tule reed boat he is building, a model of which sits in front of him, at Galilee Harbor in Sausalito on Monday, April 24, 2023. The boat is a prototype of the ...

CORONADOCORONADO — Kumeyaay students, professors and community members will sail 50 traditional tule boats into the ocean Saturday as part of Kumeyaay Community College’s curriculum and efforts for ...

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