Country Life
Young couple taking over Ferndale farm
Submitted by the Tribune on January 13, 2010 - 8:20am. Country LifeCalvin Bratt
Tribune editor
Hilda Mitchell stands with some herd paperwork at the front of the farm’s milking parlor at 2780 Aldergrove Rd., Ferndale. She and her husband, Kevin Dougherty, are building up toward a herd of 400 cows by spring. — Lynden Tribune | CALVIN BRATT
FERNDALE — Even the rain falling steadily on a January Monday couldn’t dampen Hilda Mitchell’s optimism as she stood surveying the Aldergrove Road dairy operation that she and her husband are building up.
State closes Nooksack elk hunt after problem incident
Submitted by the Tribune on January 13, 2010 - 8:19am. Country LifeCaleb Breakey
Tribune sports reporter
Elk have been successfully built up in numbers in the Nooksack herd whose habitat is the South Fork Nooksack and upper Skagit river areas. Limited hunts have been reinstituted in recent years. However, in winter the eld tend to come down into lowland fields and farms and cause damage, provoking problems in more populated areas. — Lynden Tribune | COURTESY PHOTO
SKAGIT — When a state game officer and a bunch of motorists noticed several bow-hunting men in a pasture off Highway 20 on Dec. 26, they knew something was wrong.



