Just as the short Alaska summer was beginning its slide into fall in the latter half of August 2018, 41-year-old Russian immigrant Vladimir Kostenko slipped into a backpack and hiked off into […]
Gone guy
The failed ban
The coming year marks the 30th anniversary of the state of Alaska’s attempt to control world salmon markets by banning fish farming in the 49th state. It would seem an appropriate time […]
Olden days
The difference between hunting for your dinner and shopping for it is writ in the reminder of how easy life in the modern Western world. It is so easy most just take […]
Peace on drugs
End of the trail, the Iditarod finish line in Nome/NPS photo The doping manual for the 2020 Iditarod Trail Sled Dog Race is now out. Gone is the “strict liability” rule that […]
Fat, fatter, cutest
Once it was left to scientists and big-game guide to judge the size of grizzly bears in Alaska, but in the age of information, Katmai National Park and Preserve came up with […]
Farmers’ success
Today in the global fishing business: The two biggest, young stars in Alaska’s Iditarod Trail Sled Dog Race hookup with a Norwegian sponsor which built its business on producing food for fish […]
Unofficially official
For the fourth time this decade – but only the eighth time in the 134-year history of Alaska commercial salmon harvests – the catch has topped 200 million. The Alaska Department of […]
Alaska’s bounty
For the fourth time this decade – but only the eighth time in the state’s 60-year history – Alaska is on the cusp of posting another salmon harvest at or above the […]
Sea change
Across the remote, nearly 1 million square miles of water stretching north and south of the Arctic boundary between the U.S. and Russia, a monumental ecological shift powered by rising water temperatures […]
Salmon bounty
For the fourth time in the last six years, Alaska is on the verge of recording a season-long salmon harvest at or above 200 million fish. Harvests of this size have happened […]
