This is not a manly confession to make, but I killed a caribou last week and felt bad. Or maybe bad is the wrong word. Uncomfortable would be better. Bad is what […]
On killing
Netting Alaska’s spoils
The most fought-over commodity in Cook Inlet/Craig Medred photo Fifty years ago with runs of most Cook Inlet salmon failing, every fisherman – commercial, subsistence and sport – paid the price of […]
Alaska’s greatest gift, Pt. 2
This is part two of a four part series: the fall and rise of Alaska fisheries. For those who came of age or arrived in Alaska after the start of the new […]
Alaska’s greatest gift, Pt. 1
This is the first part of a four part series : Fishing, a very special business. Forty-four years ago, average Alaskans voted one of the state’s most powerful special interest groups a […]
Kenai fish fight
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 […]
