Two bears – one grizzly, one black – were shot dead in an Anchorage suburb over the weekend, bringing to seven the number of bears killed so far this year in defense […]
The killing season
The road to hell
CENTER CREEK, CHUGACH NATIONAL FOREST – Bushwhack: “To force one’s way through a forested or overgrown area where no path exists.” Synonym: Hellbashing”
Another fish fight
The Alaska Outdoor Council, the 49th state’s largest outdoor organization, says it’s mad as hell and not going to take it anymore. The problem? A decision by Alaska Republican Senators Lisa Murkowski […]
The killing season
CHITINA – By late afternoon Wednesday, the winds funneling out of Wood Canyon to the south of the Chitina-McCarthy bridge were driving a Sahara-Desert-style sandstorm across the exposed sandbars off the low […]
Oil spill spared fish
Almost 30 years after the oil tanker Exxon Valdez hit Bligh Reef and smeared Prince William Sound with more than 11 million gallons of Alaska crude oil, a team of state and […]
21st Century salmon
As Alaska struggles to maintain commercial productivity in its most-valuable, wild-salmon fisheries, competition in the fish market is looming on every horizon. Land-based salmon farms are popping up in odd […]
To live and die in AK
The last mule deer in Fairbanks is dead, a sad victim of civilization. To some he was an immigrant pioneering a new land. To others, he was an invasive species. “He’d been […]
So many kings
With the commercial catch of king salmon off the mouth of the Copper River steadily growing, the Alaska Department of Fish and Game has gone all in on the idea that a […]
Glorious warmth
The season of the snow looks to finally have been beaten back in Alaska. After a cold and wet Memorial Day weekend that left the Chugach Mountains above the state’s largest city […]
Good bad news?
The Copper River commercial salmon fishery ended Tuesday almost 2,000 Chinook over the 5,000-salmon threshold the Alaska Department of Fish and Game set as the acceptable harvest for 2017, and the fishing […]
