If you’re an observant dog owner, you’re almost sure to have noticed how Fido seems to pick up on your moods, and now scientists think they’ve pinned down one of the big […]
Mind readers
A packraft death
Four years after 22-year-old Austrian filmmaker Adain Don died in a packrafting accident on the Nizina River in the Wrangell-St. Elias Park and Preserve, the National Park Service has finally released […]
The future?
More than 50 years after Alaska banned fish traps amid a popular belief they were man’s greatest threat to the survival of salmon, researchers studying salmon bycatch on the Columbia River have […]
Everyone dies
Has the time come to accept Covid-19 for what it has truly become, the newest of the inevitable life-ending diseases that we all must one day face? “While overall COVID deaths remain […]
Predator vs prey
A news analysis The Bristol Bay sockeye salmon season is coming off another record year, and crab numbers in the Bering Sea are crashing. The Alaska Department of Fish and Game […]
Return to yesteryear
The snow was falling right on schedule for the 1980s in Alaska’s largest city on Monday. Back then my hunting logs invariably marked Oct. 10 as the day the waterfowl season entered […]
A fish mining tax
Salmon farmers in Norway have proven so successful that the Norwegian government is now proposing to treat them like most other resource extraction industries in a move that is roiling the aquaculture […]
Dangerous routes
Almost a month has passed since 13-year-old Zakkary Mann was rundown on Brayton Drive, a specifically designated “bike route” in Alaska’s largest city, and still his mother, Shana, is no closer to […]
Making things worse
When the SARS-CoV-2 pandemic began, there wasn’t much governments could do to make things better, but there were things they could do to make things worse. And, according to a peer-reviewed study […]
Semi-annual bailouts
Even when things are bad, it’s good to be a commercial fisherman in Alaska. In the fat years, salmon fill the nets, and they haul in boatloads of cash. And in the […]
