Anchorage gun shop owner Niels Green found himself unarmed Thursday when a black bear confronted him at a distance of only a couple of feet on a footbridge near Seward, but he […]
Beach ball bear defense
The good news
Amid concerns about new, vaccine-resistant variants of the SARS-CoV-2 virus in the U.S. and Alaska, and with the disease it causes ravaging India, it’s easy to overlook the fact that humans appear […]
Trains of trucks
OGALLALA, Neb. – Rolling west on the interstate highway system through the American Heartland, it’s hard to avoid wondering if Amazon.com-founder Jeff Bezos isn’t responsible for adding more carbon dioxide to […]
The good in bad
Remember all those stories you read about how global warming was increasing the number of forest fires in Alaska, and those forest fires burning deep into soils were, in turn, accelerating warming […]
Fleeing COVID
Can you run, walk, pedal, swim, snowshoe, ski or otherwise run away from the pandemic SARS-CoV-2 virus? A new study doesn’t promise that you can, but it does indicate you can cut […]
Last run
A preliminary report released by the U.S. National Transportation Safety Board today would appear to indicate that a group of skiers and snowboarders who died in a late March helicopter crash in […]
Ever fewer
News analysis As Alaskans turn their attention to yet another forecast of a low return of sockeye salmon to the waters lapping at the shore of the state’s largest city, Canadian scientists […]
A family’s loss
Sixty years ago, a one-time trapper turned writer named Frank Conibear was presented the Certificate of Merit from the American Humane Society for inventing a body-crushing trap designed to quickly kill wild […]
Tragic loss
Update: This story was updated on April 13 to include new information. Days before a 40-year-old heli-skier was reported dead in an avalanche near the Matanuska Glacier north of Anchorage, a 22-year-old […]
Secret season
SPENCER GLACIER – The April sun was bright in the Placer River valley east of Alaska’s largest city on Tuesday making the air feel warmer and the wilderness friendlier than the 27-degree […]
