The deadly season has begun again in Alaska with a climber dead in Denali National Park and Preserve and a group of glacier-crossing skiers saved in Kenai Fjords National Park thanks to […]
Death season
Unseen salmon
Study shines light on secret lives A news analysis While the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) has been busy outlining a long, involved and financially unrealistic plan for research aimed […]
Bad messaging
Alaska salmon, the poor folks’ seafood! Why, oh why, do the political leaders of the 49th state want to portray Alaska salmon as a commodity the market doesn’t want? First it was […]
The ‘accident’
A death quickly dismissed Forty-eight-year-old Matt Glover from North Pole, Alaska, was, according to his many Fairbanks-area friends, among the safest and most responsible cyclists in the 49th state. A wildland […]
Alaska delusions
The great takeover of federal waters Oh if only the facts were as a trio of Alaska House legislators would like their colleagues to believe. They’ve drafted a resolution calling on Congress […]
Paying the price
Some ‘long-Covid’ tied to lifestyle issues Add Post-Covid Syndrome, or what many now just call “long Covid,” to the lengthy list of ailments compounded by the American Slothdemic. Swedish scientists who examined […]
Dirty bottoms
Salmon ranch waste reported piling up Update: This story was updated on April 8, 2024 to specify the more than $10.3 million the state of Alaska in fiscal year funneled to […]
The bonanza
Who got the money? A news analysis One of the greatest Alaska stories never told centers on the multi-billion dollar bonanza that the combination of global warming and open-ocean salmon farming has […]
Alaska idyll
Alaska’s white pavements PLACER RIVER – The snowpack in this glacier-headed drainage 50 miles southeast of Alaska’s largest city was still at least four feet thick on Wednesday and with the early […]
Accepting reality
Ocean pastures are not limitless An Oregon State University professor studying the levels of dissolved oxygen in the offshore waters of the Pacific Northwest has described almost perfectly what Alaska’s free-range salmon […]
