Humpies invade North America’s East Coast First the pink salmon, the smallest and shortest-lived of the species, took over the Pacific Ocean, swarming with the help of Alaska ocean ranching until they […]
The takeover
Ecosystem management
Are disappearing Yukon River king salmon collateral damage? Conservation biologists have been talking for decades now about something called “ecosystem management,” but it is hardly ever practiced. Politics fueled by money, good […]
Yesterday’s heroes
Today’s sled dogs little like hero of yesteryear Short of leg, a little wide of girth and fluffy, the legendary sled dog Balto looks little like the skinny, short-haired, long-legged hounds of […]
The magic solution
Calls for hatcheries to ‘save’ Yukon salmon “And God said, Let us make man in our image, after our likeness: and let them have dominion over the fish of the sea, and […]
Deadly playground
Alaska inattentiveness blamed in billionaire’s death The once richest man in the Czech Republic did not die because of a helicopter crash in the Chugach Mountains just north of Alaska’s […]
Overlooked killers
How the machines took control In science fiction stories – be they told in books, movies, or digitally – the machines are required to develop intelligence before they try to take […]
Alaska B4UDie
Land of otherworldly adventures KNIK GLACIER – Standing at the face of a 125-square-mile river of ice on Saturday, talking to public-minded businessman Mark Johnson (yes, it is possible to be […]
Rest matters
Tired Iditarod dogs could be seen to look ‘exhausted’ Yet again, the Iditarod Trail Sled Dog Race has a public relations problem because people have noticed the esoteric little race across the […]
Rabbit redux
Iditarod finish controversy brewing Fifty years on from the first running of the Iditarod Trail Sled Dog Race, a Redington has finally won in a 2023 version of the event that […]
Fish math
A group of international fisheries scientists is now pointing out the simple, ecological reality of mathematics long ignored by Alaska salmon managers: addition matters as well as subtraction. With the […]
