Calls for hatcheries to ‘save’ Yukon salmon “And God said, Let us make man in our image, after our likeness: and let them have dominion over the fish of the sea, and […]
The magic solution
Deadly playground
Alaska inattentiveness blamed in billionaire’s death The once richest man in the Czech Republic did not die because of a helicopter crash in the Chugach Mountains just north of Alaska’s […]
Alaska B4UDie
Land of otherworldly adventures KNIK GLACIER – Standing at the face of a 125-square-mile river of ice on Saturday, talking to public-minded businessman Mark Johnson (yes, it is possible to be […]
Lifting the curtain
Window opens for possible “Fish War’ game changer Amidst chaos comes the change if not the need to think outside the box, and thus Alaska fishery biologists today find themselves staring […]
Rest matters
Tired Iditarod dogs could be seen to look ‘exhausted’ Yet again, the Iditarod Trail Sled Dog Race has a public relations problem because people have noticed the esoteric little race across the […]
Fish math
A group of international fisheries scientists is now pointing out the simple, ecological reality of mathematics long ignored by Alaska salmon managers: addition matters as well as subtraction. With the […]
Pink tide rising
Both Russia and Alaska expect big pink salmon numbers this year A humpy swarm is again forming the North Pacific Ocean if fishery managers in Russia and the U.S. are to […]
Ever faster
The Iditarod and the quest for speed Part III of III Ever since musher Rick Swenson’s epic, man-against-the-elements victory of 1991 when he went to the front of his dog […]
Iditarod rising
Two women made famous the ‘Last Great Race’ Part II of III Any history of the Iditarod Trail Sled Dog Races is most accurately recorded in the years BR and AR – […]
Changing times
A withering Iditarod faces an unknown future Part one of a series Forty years ago, a young Athabascan dog driver named Howard Albert from the village of Ruby on the Yukon River […]
