Feds sued to protect king salmon With the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) in chaos amid a Trump administration reorganization, the Wild Fish Conservancy has decided it is time to […]
Fading fish
Good or not so?
Nobody yet knows After decades of ignoring the problem of deadly Chinook salmon bycatch in the Cook Inlet set gillnet fishery, commercial fishermen are now pushing for a whole-scale shift to seemingly […]
Goodby Charlie
The man who survived the bear obsession In an illustration of how fleeting fame in these days of internet immediacy, bear man Charles E. “Charlie” Vandergaw died almost unnoticed in Anchorage last […]
Reality bites
Alaska’s struggling salmon business While the North Pacific Ocean appears to have hit peak salmon – possibly to the detriment of the most prized and valued of salmon species – the […]
Gone kings
Will fabled Kenai kings ever return? Before the waters of the North Pacific Ocean warmed and its population of pink salmon exploded, Alaska’s Kenai River was home to a run of giant […]
Cook Inlet’s Everwar
Apparently unaware of why the Alaska Boards of Fisheries and Game were created and clueless as to the biological significance of the commercial salmon fishery in Upper Cook Inlet, Rep. Sarah Vance, […]
Iditarod downer
Feel good story torpedoed While reality TV star Jessie “Moose Killer” Holmes and his wolf pack were charging toward a first Iditarod Trail Sled Dog Race victory on Wednesday, race organizers were […]
Dog saved
Iditarod PR badly, badly botched The Iditarod Trail Sled Dog Race, an event that claims to be “all about the dogs,” this week disqualified a musher who was all about the dogs, […]
Iditarod lost
Last Great Race again abandons historic trail So now it has come down to this: 20 miles of bad trail is enough to send the event that bills itself as the “Last […]
Unseen disaster
The costs of social engineering salmon harvests Part II of II To begin to understand how Alaska has so devalued salmon – once one of the state’s most valuable resources – one […]
