Can an ever smaller Iditarod survive? Fifteen years ago, I wrote a book titled “Graveyard of Dreams: Dashed Hopes and Shattered Aspirations Along Alaska’s Iditarod Trail” that the Iditarod refused to sell […]
Shrinking or sinking?
Going down
Oh-oh moment for Alaska salmon season With the Alaska commercial salmon season now more than 80 percent done with a harvest lagging behind the pre-season forecast, as was the case last year, […]
Not ours
But cheer up, Alaska not worst The good old days of a 49th state rich in oil revenues that boosted all kinds of community projects might be over, and the culture war […]
Whose fault?
Musher blamed for dog death As part of accepting at least some responsibility for the death of a dog in this year’s Iditarod Trail Sled Dog Race, the Iditarod Trail Committee last […]
Awash in fish
Cook Inlet sockeye above forecast When cyclones rip through the Asian tropics, do the sockeye salmon of Alaska’s Cook Inlet end up a beneficiary? One has to wonder with scientists studying climate […]
Kings rising
Kenai River Chinook offer some hope For the first time in five years, there appears the possibility that the return of Chinook salmon to the Kenai River – an Alaska waterway once […]
Trouble again
Musher now banned on two continents Banned first by the now defunct Yukon Quest International Sled Dog Race that once ran for 1,000 miles through the frozen heart of Alaska to Whitehorse, […]
National decay
The Make America Fit Again dilemma Lost in the fog of a cultural war that has been raging for years now in these UnUnited States of Amercia are some of the biggest […]
Coop bears
The problem with tasty chickens With a chicken-fancying grizzly bear sow and her cubs still roaming upscale Hillside neighborhoods above Alaska’s largest city, there is an increasing social-media call for the Alaska […]
Losers, again
Court rejects federal fisheries takeover Inspired by the belief of the outlaw Roland Maw that federal law dictates all salmon in Cook Inlet be managed to produce the maximum return of sockeyes […]
