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 […]
Dangerous waters
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 […]
Denali hikers escape bear
As the hunt continues for a sub-adult grizzly bear with an attitude that has been threatening people near the Savage River in Denali National Park and Preserve, photos have emerged of rangers […]
Was it really a moose attack?
Fifty-year-old Fred Mayac may never be able to tell authorities what happened to him in Anchorage’s Campbell Creek Estuary Park in June where he was first thought to have been the victim […]
Denali bear hunt ongoing
As the hunt continues for a grizzly bear that last week bit a hiker in Alaska’s Denali National Park and Preserve, National Park Service officials are discovering a dichotomy familiar to most […]
Deceptively dangerous
A July Fourth hike to the top of Flattop Mountain to watch Anchorage fireworks ended with a young man from Joint Base Elmendorf-Richardson in a helicopter on his way to a local […]
