It’s almost everywhere in AK Editor’s note: This post has been updated. The faces of the ”badass local gals” in the art attached to the story have been obscured because of complaints […]
Talking bycatch
Bye, bye Rob
Iditarod director leaving While most of the sporting world was Friday chattering about the FIFA World Cup, the July Fourth start of the Tour de France, or the latest NFL star facing […]
Another bailout
Cash rewards for bad behavior For decades, commercial setnet fishermen working the beaches on the east side of Cook Inlet fought efforts to alter their fishery to reduce the bycatch of king […]
Bearlandia
Anchorage’s rewarding and risky cycling A news analysis Friday was a great day for a gravel-bike ride on the backroads of Anchorage’s Joint Base Elmendorf-Richardson, where it is common to see more […]
A Big, Big Life
Goodby Daryl A U.S. Marine who emerged from the jungles of Vietnam to become a legend for saving lives as a National Park Service ranger on Mount McKilney has seen his last […]
A ranger’s death
And a lot of questions A news analysis On a mountain where skis have, over the years, increasingly replaced snowshoes as the tool of choice for glacier travel, a National Park Service […]
Bad year
Iditarod dream dies and then…. As if this year’s Iditarod Trail Sled Dog Race wasn’t enough of a disaster for “expedition” musher Steve Curtis, the Canadian now has bigger trouble in the […]
And so it ends
No fed takeover of AK salmon The Supreme Court of the United States has put an end to the maximum-sustained-yield (MSY) dream of disgraced Alaska Board of Fisheries member Roland Maw and […]
Growing awareness
Trade-offs at sea? A mainstream media long stuck on the idea that dams and global warming were the only problems facing the fabled Chinook salmon of the Pacific Northwest seems to finally […]
Never learn
At least gas is still available Fifty-two years after Americans should have learned the danger of letting machines dictate the design of their cities and the way they live, people across […]
