This story is an edited version of the original. It was updated on Sept. 25, 2020 to reflect corrected information about what bear attack victim Austin Pfieiffer was doing at the […]
Second bear victim
Warming winner
The Alaska Arctic appears to be home to global-warming winner familiar to almost everyone in the 49th state: pink salmon. Impossible to miss for those fishing in the “Top of the World” […]
Fear
TWENTYMILE RIVER – Fear lives, sometimes inexplicably, in the human mind. Dropping down the overgrown trail from Berry Pass at the top of Winner Creek over the weekend, the discussion turned to […]
The humpy swarm
As Alaska putters toward what looks to be its worst commercial salmon season in almost 40 years – despite another banner season for sockeye in Bristol Bay – Cook Inlet streams […]
Deprivation diet?
Alaska’s decades-long bonanza of pink salmon has now been fingered as one of the likely suspects in a roller-coaster decline in size of four other species of Pacific salmon. After examining a […]
Bears attack
No one will ever know how Daniel Schilling met his demise in the Kenai Mountains above the long-abandoned mining community of Sunrise this summer, but many will long wonder given that two […]
Real(ity) tales
If a reality TV star’s latest version of events is to be believed, the media tale of former President Barak Obama eating a bear-killed salmon while on his 2015 global-warming tour of […]
The divide
Alaska officials are suing the federal government to protect a majority of hunters from a minority of hunters in the state with the whackiest public lands issues in the country. The minority […]
No sacrifices
If you visit a national park in the U.S., do not abandon your hiking companion or companions to a bear to save yourself. That is the rather odd advice now being offered […]
Oh my!
Prey, not predators at biggest threat of extinction – study
