Every day it seems to become just a little more obvious that the future of the commercial salmon business is on land no matter what Alaskans might think about where the tastiest […]
Tastes better
The best welfare
If you were lucky enough to have a high-paying job and some status within your community when the pandemic began, thank your lucky stars. Your elevated socioeconomic status might have done […]
Old becomes new
PLACER RIVER – The wind blew hard and cold from the north on Tuesday, and the new normal urban Alaska has come to expect seemed a long time gone. The snow was […]
Fear fades
While we were away, it appears the pandemic ended in the minds of most even as COVID-19 infection rates surged in many states; American kids grew even fatter; and the National Football League […]
We’ll be back
Regular readers of this website might have noticed a slowing of production in the past two weeks. No, the author has not contracted COVID-19. He does, however, have some personal business going […]
The chicken farmer
News analysis One cannot help but feel sorry for commercial fisherman and former chicken farmer Russell Clark, one of the 735 people who hold permits to set net for salmon […]
Amateur experts
Update: This story was revised to include more information on lightning deaths. The New York Times, a journal pretty much out of its element anywhere west of the headwaters of the Ohio […]
Gone silent
BEAVER CREEK, Yukon Territory, Canada – At 8 a.m. Tuesday, this once summer-busy chokepoint on the Alaska Highway between Canada and the 49th state looked a lot like the ghost town of […]
Greatest danger
WHITE RIVER, Yukon Territory, Canada – Water is what kills people in the wilds of the far north, but bears are what people fear. Why this disconnect is hard to say. […]
Dividing the baby
Alaska’s Kenai River is today a textbook example of the problems of managing mixed-stock fisheries right down to commercial set gillnetters protesting they catch comparatively few of the weak stock. The weak […]
