Despite The Nation magazine this month suggesting Alaska salmon in peril, the Alaska Department of Fish and Game says consumers need not worry about eating wild-caught fish from the 49th state. Salmon […]
Doomsday
Car problems
SEATTLE – When stuck in the often nightmarish, 2019 traffic of this Pacific Northwest city, it is hard to avoid wondering if U.S. federal highway vehicle emission standards didn’t actually help move […]
Burn, burn, burn
A long way from a record, the Alaska fire season is winding down at last with the long-term consequences far from clear. The good news is no one died, although a number […]
Alaska’s bounty
For the fourth time this decade – but only the eighth time in the state’s 60-year history – Alaska is on the cusp of posting another salmon harvest at or above the […]
Marketing fail
Whoever thinks making a big deal out of Alaska’s unusually warm summer shifts the national climate discussion please click on her or his computer. OK, you 10 people can probably stop reading […]
Salmon bounty
UPDATE: The official catch for 2019 is now pegged at just under 208 million salmon with a weight of more than 872 million pounds. For the fourth time in the last six […]
Warmer, wetter
The month of September has only begun, but so far the U.S. Climate Prediction Center has hit the bullseye – warmer, as it has been all summer, and wetter, hopefully marking the […]
Happy exhaustion
Twentymile River – The wind and rain that have long defined late-summer and fall in this corner of Alaska stormed into the country on Sunday, but the drought of ’19 – the […]
Perspective
Late-arriving pink salmon stormed into Prince William Sound this week to push the statewide harvest for 2019 well above the five-year average of more than 170 million fish. The big catch […]
The upside
JEAN LAKE – Another big fire of the type many have been expecting since spruce-bark beetles devasted Southcentral Alaska forests in the 1990s has swept across the Kenai National Wildlife Refuge […]
