Alaska’s Kenai kings are on the chopping block Meeting now in Anchorage, the Alaska Board of Fisheries looks primed to lead the 49th state farther down the wrong road of fisheries management, […]
Same old story
New Ice Age
Alaska’s snowy, frozen urban core The nine feet of snow now burying Alaska’s largest metro area should have come as but a small surprise. With a relatively strong El Niño in the […]
Gone processing
The price of progress? As you read this, work is continuing in Bellingham, Wash., on a $40-million, federally financed, salmon-processing barge some think could revolutionize the Alaska fishing business. By spring, the […]
Tangled up in fish
Alaska’s incredibly complicated marine ecosystems Populations of Pacific Ocean perch, a species about which little is known, and sablefish are now on the rise across the Gulf of Alaska and dominant in […]
The great addiction
More than a century on from when Henry Ford changed America forever with the introduction of the Model T, the time has come to ask whether we still own motor vehicles […]
Tough to predict
Good-bye new norm, hello old Alaska’s largest city was still digging out from under more than three feet of “equal chances” on Monday with still more snowfall in the forecast for the […]
E-flailings
U.S health and transport problems are us Today in these unUnited States of America, nearly 2,000 people will die of heart disease and another 1,700 or so will die of cancer. And […]
O’Canada
SOMEWHERE IN SOUTHEAST SASKATCHEWAN, CANADA – On the road south and east from the oil and gas boom cities of Fort Nelson, British Columbia, and Grande Prairie, Alberta, into […]
Wet and wetter
This is global warming After the winter of much snow has come the summer of much rain to dampen the spirits of the more than half of all Alaskans who live in […]
Blinders on
The problem with agendas With Alaska reporting yet another season in which the harvest of salmon topped 200 million fish, the Associated Press has somehow concluded “climate change” is plaguing the state’s […]
