After Kenai River personal use dipnetters struggled through an often slow July trying to catch their winter supply of sockeye salmon, the Alaska Department of Fish and Game refused to grant them […]
The hardest loss
After more than a week of futile search involving hundreds of people, the hunt for missing Texan Brad Broach was winding down in Girdwood on Sunday. Alaska State Troopers spokesman Tim DeSpain […]
Bear killed, man shot
Everything happened so fast when a grizzly bear attacked in the thick brush along Alaska’s Humpy Creek at the end of July that Kim Woodman found himself acting purely on adrenaline and […]
Hiker gone lost
Once more a massive search is underway for a man gone missing for days on a known wilderness trail not far from Alaska’s largest city. Texan Bradford Broach has not been seen […]
Whale attacks in AK
Bear attacks. Moose attacks. And now a whale attack. What a summer in Alaska.
Predatory double standards
The federal government used tax payer dollars to kill tens of thousand of coyotes (which we now know are little more than skinny wolves) along with hundreds of bears and full-grown wolves […]
Chicken for Barrow
Guirec Soudee, the chicken sailor, is Barrow bound. “Today is a great day finally we leave for the North West Passage after one year spent in greenland,” he posted on his Facebook […]
One state wholly divided
Yet again, Alaska’s long, difficult struggle with subsistence is in the news. This time the fight is over a gillnet in the Kenai River.
Denali bear dead
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 […]
