MIDDLE RIVER – Kirk Dreier spends his days working alongside a mallard duck named Quacky and two captive possums. Dreier, the director of Marshy Point Nature Center in Middle River, spends his work ...
Rex Watson displays two bi-face knives that he made from Oregon and California obsidian. The handles are from mule deer and elk antlers. (The Observer/PHIL BULLOCK). STORY BY DICK MASON OF THE ...
It's several times sharper than surgical steel and has an iridescent beauty that masks its use as a deadly tool. It's obsidian — a hard, dark volcanic glass used for thousands of years by American ...