Tourism rebounding as fish fade If federal economists are to be believed, a resurgent tourism industry in the state’s national parks might make the tourist hordes more valuable than the state’s […]
Two-legged stool
(S)he is us
Alaskans crowd popular recreation sites Stealing a page from the playbook of radio-tracking wildlife biologists, the Alaska Division of Parks and Outdoor Recreation four years ago began tracking people roaming the […]
Choked streams
Hatchery salmon smothering wild salmon? Scientists studying warming in Alaska’s Tongass National Forest have stumbled on a new way in which the state’s massive aquaculture industry could be harming wild salmon: hypoxia. […]
Massive fail
Flailing policy
Where Anchorage bike policy went wrong With the Anchorage Assembly patting itself on the back for supposedly making Alaska’s largest city safer and friendlier for so-called “vulnerable road users,” […]
Talking safety
Anchorage’s phony new bike law On the day a well-meaning Anchorage Assembly approved a new bike ordinance claimed to make the state’s largest city safer for those who pedal, I was […]
An Ick(y) problem?
Hints of a new risk for Yukon Chinook A news analysis Scientists with the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) have come up with a new possibility as to why Bering […]
Salmon disaster
Pink prices could fall to 10 cents a pound What began as a bad Alaska salmon season has suddenly gotten a whole lot worse. And no, it isn’t about “Otis” or any […]
Anti-facta
Journalism’s know-it-all class Remember that know-it-all classmate we all encountered in school at some time in life? You know, the obnoxious one who had answers to everything all the time and was […]
New ‘fishermen’
Hatcheries harvesting ever more salmon The long-ago fears of the late Wayne Alex, a commercial purse seine fishermen in Alaska’s Panhandle, have now come true nearly 600 miles to the north in […]
