RUSSIAN RIVER – The crowds that have made this gin-clear stream Alaska’s most famous “combat fishery” were missing Wednesday. A mature black bear that emerged behind the lone angler occupying the well-known […]
Empty state
Dangerous bear?
If you are on the Kenai Peninsula north of Seward, Alaska, be careful where you hike on the Iditarod National Historic Trail. A grizzly bear or bears could be coming for […]
Secret lives
A draft of the latest look into the secret lives of Pacific salmon is now in print, and it echoes the key finding of the 2019 voyage of the R/V Professor Kaganovsky […]
Out of the wild
An abandoned bus made famous by the book and movie “Into the Wild” was ambushed by the Alaska National Guard this afternoon and is being taken to an undisclosed location, the Alaska […]
Bell curves
The bell curve that no Alaskans wanted to see flatten started late, peaked early and is now falling fast as state fishery managers begin to worry about whether they will be able […]
Bears everywhere
The SARS-CoV-2 virus might have upended the world, but in Alaska’s largest city, some things haven’t changed. Summer is back and along with it the bears. They are seemingly everywhere, though […]
Where are they?
Unusually low returns of Chinook and sockeye salmon to rivers and streams along the northern rim of the Gulf of Alaska have fisheries scientists wondering what has happened in the wake […]
Missing fish
Commercial fishermen had their nets in the waters off the mouth of the Copper River on Monday even though the return of sockeye salmon to one of the 49th state’s most fabled […]
Reds in peril
A group of Canadian and West Coast U.S. scientists think they have an answer as to why returns of sockeye salmon to the Kenai, Copper and other Western North American rivers have […]
At last
Finally a hint of good news for the isolated fishing port of Cordova that has been in a tailspin since fall when a cash-strapped state of Alaska cut ferry service. Then came […]
