Are disappearing Yukon River king salmon collateral damage? Conservation biologists have been talking for decades now about something called “ecosystem management,” but it is hardly ever practiced. Politics fueled by money, good […]
Today’s sled dogs little like hero of yesteryear Short of leg, a little wide of girth and fluffy, the legendary sled dog Balto looks little like the skinny, short-haired, long-legged hounds of […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
