SEATTLE — Soon, in Southwest Washington, the campaign will ramp up. No, nothing as trivial as a presidential campaign. This is far more important. This is the campaign to become Washington’s official ...

OLYMPIA – The Legislature could declare the razor clam the official Washington state clam, if it can beat back an upstart challenge from the geoduck. The Pacific razor clam is highly important to ...

From Thursday to March 11, people can go clamming from noon to midnight, during the afternoon and evening low tides. From March 12 to 17, people can go for the morning and early afternoon tides, from ...

Razor clam digging opportunities are set for Nov. 18-23 at Long Beach, Twin Harbors, Copalis, and Mocrocks beaches.

Michael Cimarusti doesn’t remember the name of the restaurant, but he vividly remembers the experience. “That clam shell was as big as my head, and my sister and I ate the whole damn thing,” says ...

Portland State University researchers and their collaborators at the Quinault Indian Nation and Oregon State University found microplastics in Pacific razor clams on Washington's sparsely populated ...

Introductions -- Lay of the land : Long Beach and Ocean Shores -- Sacred treaties -- Ecology and anatomy -- Past abundances -- The era of NIX and domoic acid -- Pumping and counting -- Licensed to ...

This article appears in print in the January 2019 issue. Click here to subscribe. The razor clam is a sweet, meaty mollusk native to the Pacific Northwest and is easy to find along the beaches of ...

Editor’s note: Pacific NW magazine’s weekly Backstory provides a behind-the-scenes glimpse of the writer’s process or an extra tidbit that accompanies our cover story. This week’s cover story captures ...

Researchers found microplastics in Pacific razor clams on Washington's sparsely populated Olympic Coast -- proof, they say, that even in more remote regions, coastal organisms can't escape plastic ...