After a long summer of weak, sockeye salmon returns around the northeast Gulf of Alaska, a late surge of the fish into the Copper River has provided good news for the Cordova-based […]
Got fish
The Humpocalypse
This story has been updated with some Alaska catch information. If “The Blob” was responsible for Alaska’s faltering salmon runs this year as some have suggested despite a lack of any real […]
Media bubbling
For anyone who wonders why President Donald Trump’s regular and often erroneous rantings about “fake news” resonate so well with a certain segment of America, here’s a reason why: “Bear meat is […]
Wild values
As this is written, the author is sitting at a keyboard pretty well pounded by Alaska. Three and half hours of steady paddling from the seat of a packraft after a four-and-half-hour, […]
Seeing trail dog
Archdeacon Hudson Stuck, the man who organized the first successful ascent of North America’s tallest mountain in 1913, once observed that the best thing one man can give another in Alaska is […]
“The Blab”-ber
News analysis Alaska is going to end the 2018 salmon season with a catch a little over half that of last year despite another phenomenal return of Bristol Bay sockeye salmon. But […]
AK hard men
Neither fans nor ceremony greeted Jay Cable and Tom Moran when they crossed the finish line of Alaska’s most formidable race earlier this month. There was only the deep satisfaction of mission […]
Subsistence wars?
While Alaska Attorney General Jahna Lindemuth has been trying to convince Alaskans the state should have no problem gaining legal right to its navigable waters while leaving the federal government […]
Saving babies
After much lobbying by citizens of Seward, a small town at the head of Alaska’s Resurrection Bay, an effort is underway to rescue two orphaned grizzly bear cubs that have become a city […]
Kenai collapse
News analysis UPDATE: The Alaska Department of Fish and Game is shutting down sockeye salmon fishing in the Kenai River from Cook Inlet to the Kenai Lake bridge in Cooper Landing starting […]
