Four years after 22-year-old Austrian filmmaker Adain Don died in a packrafting accident on the Nizina River in the Wrangell-St. Elias Park and Preserve, the National Park Service has finally released […]
A packraft death
Everyone dies
Has the time come to accept Covid-19 for what it has truly become, the newest of the inevitable life-ending diseases that we all must one day face? “While overall COVID deaths remain […]
Predator vs prey
A news analysis The Bristol Bay sockeye salmon season is coming off another record year, and crab numbers in the Bering Sea are crashing. The Alaska Department of Fish and Game […]
Return to yesteryear
The snow was falling right on schedule for the 1980s in Alaska’s largest city on Monday. Back then my hunting logs invariably marked Oct. 10 as the day the waterfowl season entered […]
A fish mining tax
Salmon farmers in Norway have proven so successful that the Norwegian government is now proposing to treat them like most other resource extraction industries in a move that is roiling the aquaculture […]
Dangerous routes
Almost a month has passed since 13-year-old Zakkary Mann was rundown on Brayton Drive, a specifically designated “bike route” in Alaska’s largest city, and still his mother, Shana, is no closer to […]
Making things worse
When the SARS-CoV-2 pandemic began, there wasn’t much governments could do to make things better, but there were things they could do to make things worse. And, according to a peer-reviewed study […]
Relentless tech
As the Alaska commercial salmon fishery, once a mainstay of the 49th state economy, trundles along bound by decades-old rules designed to maximize inefficiency, the world keeps moving forward in the name […]
Armed and safer
News analysis A national survey of American gun owners conducted by a business professor at liberal Georgetown University is suggesting that the oft-repeated conclusion that a firearm makes your home more dangerous […]
Up, down fisheries
Despite a monster catch of sockeye salmon in Alaska’s Bristol Bay, the 2022 harvest of wild-caught Pacific salmon appears to be once again yo-yoing down toward an even-year low. Trade-X Foods – […]
