Wild Fish Conservancy…Intent to Sue Over Alaska Fisheries Catching Threatened and Endangered Pacific Northwest Chinook Without Federal Oversight Alaska theft of others’ salmon exposed The Seattle-based Wild Fish Conservancy has finally figured […]
Climates collide
Colder, warmer, drier, wetter…. Months ago, the super-duper quadruple, never-before-seen El Niño roaring east across the equatorial Pacific Ocean toward the Americas seemed almost certain to cause a […]
The new Alaska
The traditional, subsistence lifestyle in Alaska is now so far gone that it is hard to live it on an income of $155,000 per year, according to the Washington Post. No, I […]
Dangerous ‘friends’
And weekend executions A marauding family of Anchorage brown/grizzly bears with a yen for ripping apart locked garbage cans, raiding chicken coops, knocking down fences and causing other damage in […]
No Salvation
The great hatchery promise With Alaska on track to post its worst salmon harvest since 1979, it’s time to revisit the promise made to the state’s once taxpaying voters when they ponied […]
The ocean giveth
And the ocean taketh away The 2026 commercial salmon season in Alaska is not yet over, but it can already be called a full-on disaster in Prince William Sound, the heartland of […]
Bear with
The Big (too) Wild Life With the Chugach Mountain foothills above Anchorage averaging a bear mauling a month in this, the summer of 2026, some seem to be getting a little edgy […]
Alaska’s mafia
Has a new don wannabe What a way to end the week. No sooner had I finished a commentary on the ‘Big Lie’ propaganda suggesting that the 49 sockeye killed as trawl […]
The big lie
Outside help AK Dems don’t need What, in God’s name, are Democrats thinking in trying to tie Sen. Dan Sullivan, R-Alaska, to trawler bycatch that has absolutely nothing to do with the […]
High crimes
And Permanent Fund misdemeanors Alaska Democrats are upset that Sen. Dan Sullivan, R-Alaska, followed the lead of the Alaska Permanent Fund and invested in a highly successful salmon farming business. They should […]
