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Heard Around the West

WASHINGTON

f you live in the forest, eventually you’re bound to run across other forest critters — deer, flying squirrels, maybe Sasquatch — so when Northwest author Jonathan Evison encountered a bear cub on a trail near his cabin on Bainbridge Island, he was prepared. The reported Evison had been tromping around in the Olympic foothills of Clallam County when he heard a curious sound: A crying baby? Or perhaps a lost kitten? He investigated and

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