After the discovery that physical fitness greatly improves the effectiveness of Covid-19 vaccines, South African doctors are saying exercise “should be encouraged by greater public health messaging.” Good luck with that. The […]
Symbiotic epidemics
Fish stories
The fish story of the year, probably the decade, has emerged out of North Pole, Alaska where a woman claims a northern pike mauled her husky-mix dog. North Pole resident Shannon Dhondt […]
Mind readers
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 […]
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 […]
