UPDATE – Shortly after this story was written, after four weeks of dodging the question of whether an Anchorage-area man was killed by a predatory bear, the Alaska Department of Fish and […]
Dangerous bear
Wild fish lost
For the first time in Alaska history, the state Board of Fisheries has voted to put the interests of the fishing industry ahead of wild salmon. The action came Tuesday after biologists […]
Gone fish
NORTH KENAI BEACH – On these Alaska sands famous for July crowds, the people were few Saturday despite the clouds parting to let in the sun. But then no one comes here […]
Car-nage
PINCKNEY, Mich. – One doesn’t have to spend much time on the roads and bike paths in the Lower 48 to be starkly reminded of Alaska’s biggest myth – the supposed bounty […]
Salmon Trumped
China might have decided against imposing tariffs on Alaska salmon off which Chinese businesses make an estimated $1.5 billion, but the Trump administration has taken a different view. As part of President […]
Baiting bears
A freezer full of rotten meat dumped along an Anchorage Hillside road, a family of hungry grizzly bears, and a motorcyclist stopping to pee along the road….what could possibly go wrong? Everything, […]
Historic firsts
This just in: Commercial salmon drift gillnetters will Thursday be allowed to fish in the Kenai River, an Alaska first. But wait, there’s more. It has just been discovered that the Nome […]
Copper disaster
No sooner did the burst of sockeye salmon into the Copper River begin than it was over. With the famous salmon river in eastern Alaska again falling behind projected daily returns, the […]
Humpy war
Hatchery pink salmon from Prince William Sound are now flooding Cook Inlet streams at levels almost 35-times greater that what the Alaska Department of Fish and Game established in 2010 as the […]
Bear hunt resumes
Almost three weeks have passed since a grizzly bear killed a hiker in the Anchorage suburb of Eagle River, and officials of the Alaska Department of Fish and Game still aren’t saying […]
