An economic opportunity for Alaska If Americans fearful of climate change are now truly fleeing the warm states for places like Duluth, Minn., as national and international media are reporting, Anchorage […]
Safe space
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 […]
Iditarod meltdown
AP pushes wild Alaska global warming claim The difference between journalism today and that of a decade or two back was pretty well writ by the once-reserved Associated Press on Thursday […]
Pink tide rising
Both Russia and Alaska expect big pink salmon numbers this year A humpy swarm is again forming the North Pacific Ocean if fishery managers in Russia and the U.S. are to […]
Shrinking salmon
The hidden costs of Alaska hatcheries Commercial salmon fishermen all along the West Coast of North America may be paying a serious price in lost poundage to help put dollars in the […]
Canada’s loss
UPDATE: This story has been revised from the original to reflect the similar declines in wild Southeast Alaska chum masked by an increase in hatchery chum production. As Southeast Alaska catches of […]
1,000 cuts
Media credibility in this country is at an all-time low not so much because of big media biases but because of the little errors that make it appear old media doesn’t […]
Colder warming
Alaska’s largest city ended the year 2022 tracking decades-old climate predictions that Anchorage would become more like Juneau and Juneau more like Seattle. The National Weather Service reported the year just […]
New ocean order
The salmon fishing industries of Alaska and Russia look poised to continue as the big beneficiaries of global warming, the North Pacific Anadromous Fish Commission (NPAC) has been told, with Canada and […]
Return to yesteryear
The snow was falling right on schedule for the 1980s in Alaska’s largest city on Monday. Back then my hunting logs invariably marked Oct. 10 as the day the waterfowl season entered […]
