You can’t run from the potentially deadly SARS-CoV-2 virus, but you might be able to hide in the forest, according to some research coming out of China. In one of the stranger […]
COVID refugia?
The bogeyman
The Kenai River return of sockeye salmon, which might have exceeded spawning needs last year, will almost certainly exceed the desired escapement this year. Cue the “over-escapement” ranting. And credit the commercial […]
COVID’s best friend
Eighteen months into the worst pandemic of the 21st century, with a newly evolved (or created) pathogen now threatening a miracle prophylactic vaccine, one might think there would finally be some discussion […]
Getting it right
Nome Nugget reporter Julie Lerner deserves a journalism award for digging down into a sketchy claim of a bear attack on the Seward Peninsula earlier this month, but you can pretty […]
‘The unRevenant’ attack
Grizzly bears do not intentionally practice catch and release mauling, but don’t tell this to the New York Times. Once the pillar of U.S. journalism, the Times last week reported an unidentified […]
Biggest epidemic
As the SARS-CoV-2 pandemic rolls on with many fretting about how some have chosen to avoid vaccination, the country’s other epidemic remains a largely unmentionable that appears to worry few. Almost […]
Second guessings
A state fisheries biologist who fell victim to an unusual bear attack near Hidden Creek on the east end of Skilak Lake in mid-June says he doesn’t want to talk about […]
Legal waste
The commercial fishing season is underway in Alaska’s Cook Inlet and along with it the bycatch waste no one wants to talk about let alone deal with. If the fish caught in […]
Not news
If you think you’re getting your news from the news in Alaska these days, think again. Most of what we call “news” now comes from government bureaucrats, and they seem increasingly […]
Nature rules
Alaskans who’ve watched the disintegration of a nylon tent pitched too long under an intense, sub-Arctic sun or witnessed a plastic cargo toboggan for their snowmachine or a dogsled destroyed by […]
