A foot to three feet of new snow was blanketing Alaska’s Kenai, Chugach and Talkeetna mountains Saturday night, and it had bonded to almost nothing. That had avalanche dangers growing everywhere from […]
Danger mountains
Death in Alaska
UPDATE: Travis’s body was recovered by a team of volunteers from Huslia Search and Rescue late Friday. They also reported that the blanket on which Travis had appeared to be resting […]
Loved to death?
What would you do if bird feeders – not some environmental pollutant – were implicated in the beak deformities suffered by Alaska chickadees, downy woodpeckers, red-breasted nuthatches, common ravens and a number […]
Dipnet catch disaster
The numbers are in at last, and it turns out Gary Barnes of the Alaska Outdoor Journal had the situation pegged six months ago when he complained to Alaska Commissioner of Fish […]
Rohn outhouse open
The U.S. Bureau of Land Management’s proposed lockdown on the lone outhouse in the remote, Alaska Range outpost of Rohn has been lifted, meaning fat-tired cyclists and ultra-runners headed north in the […]
Killer roads
Another pedestrian has been hit and killed in the dark on an Alaska roadway, bringing to four the number of people to die in this manner in the last six weeks. […]
The best of people
Oh the things Alaskans will do to save wildlife…. At youtube.com you can now watch Alaska Department of Fish and Game wildlife technician Larry Lewis of Soldotna nearly exhaust Tony Lindow of […]
Who got your fish?
For decades now, Cook Inlet fishermen of all stripes have been feuding bitterly over shares of the annual return of sockeye salmon, and now comes an indication that all that time they […]
Dangerous snow
Mother Nature delivered a classic, Bing Crosby-like “White Christmas” to winter sports fans living in Alaska’s urban core, but it came with a decidedly dark underbelly. About a month behind what […]
“Sled dogs” cleared
More bad news for Alaska dog mushers trying to refute accusations of abuse suggested by the as-yet little seen documentary “Sled Dogs.” They had backed Canadian sled-dog businesses complaining to the […]
