Nurse Donna – my late mother – had two favorite home remedies other than chicken soup for almost every disease: fresh air and a saltwater gargle. Until the COVID-19 pandemic erupted, I […]
Forgotten history
No truce
Not even the dreaded coronavirus COVID-19 seems able stop the fish wars that have long roiled the waters of Alaska’s Cook Inlet. Where some today see a pandemic spreading disease, death and […]
Remember when?
Did you ever imagine how quickly, easily and by how much a primitive, microscope organism could change the very essence of everyday modern life? Less than two months ago, most of us […]
Management mythology
In the strange, pandemic world of today, one of the unintended victims of the coronavirus COVID-19 could be the regularly and often loudly stated danger of “over-escapement” of salmon into Alaska streams […]
Park goes silent
With the climbing season on Mount Denali shut down for the year and visits to Brooks Camp in Katmai National Park and Preserve closed until at least July, the National Park Service has […]
Sold on fear
Propaganda works. That reality hit home on Saturday as a string of fat bikes properly social distanced rolled down a glacial moraine onto the sun-washed surface of Knik Lake, and the thought […]
To live and die
Along a rough gravel road that follows the bed of a long-abandoned railway deep into one of the last great wilderness areas in North America, coronavirus COVID-19 has brought to the fore […]
COVID-iness
As fish processing companies working in Alaska try to come up with plans that will allow for summer operations in the new world of the coronavirus COVID-19, food production facilities across the […]
Ultimate isolation
Some good news on the COVID-19 front for Alaskans who love the outdoors. Both the Alaska Department of Fish and Game and the state Department of Health and Social Services now say […]
Collateral damage?
Wildlife biologists in Alaska’s urban core are beginning to worry that a combination of the COVID-19 lock down, late-lingering snows and good intentions could be brewing a perfect storm of death for […]
