A Denali National Park and Preserve grizzly bear that had taken to chasing people in the Savage River area in hopes of obtaining food might have had a reason. Park rangers who […]
Salmon dipnet hurrah!
MOUTH OF THE KENAI RIVER – After a 36-hour respite from commercial fishing offshore in Cook Inlet, the sockeye salmon flowed steadily along the beaches here on Wednesday. The fishing was not […]
Lost hiker found
If you’re going to get lost in Alaska and you want to be found before you die, pick a popular national park for your northern adventure. Within hours after a man disappeared […]
Looks good; guzzles gas
That fashionable roof rack on which you spent $600, $800, $1,000 or more to haul all your recreational toys around Alaska? It’s destined to cost you a lot more than you ever […]
Dangerous waters
The subtle but dangerous difference between wild and urban Alaska was underlined this week by the tragic death of a mother and son on the Kobuk River and the combat-fishing rescue of […]
Dipnet bummer days
Spoiled by years of good fishing at the mouth of the Kenai River in mid-July, Alaska personal-use dipnetters seem primed to explode at the Alaska Department of Fish and Game for its […]
Goat got clicks
National and international news stories falsely claiming photographers drove an Alaska mountain goat to its death in the ocean off Seward have given the owner of the Seward City News.com a big […]
Bear, moose victim wakes
On the day after the Alaska Department of Fish and Game revealed its conclusion that a bear attack cum moose stomping on the edge of an upscale Anchorage neighborhood a month ago […]
Grizzly bear gone lost
Fate may have intervened to save the life of a young grizzly bear on whose head Denali National Park officials imposed a death sentence earlier this month. The subadult bear appeared doomed […]
Reality TV claims a life
The creative director at RideApart.com, a major website for motorcycle adventure, has died in a freak, off-trail, motorsport accident in the Front Range Chugach Mountains above Anchorage. Forty-three-year-old Jim Downs from North […]
