Table reversed to put retired judge on trail Nineteen years ago in Alaska, a then-big game guide by the name of David Haeg was convicted of illegally hunting wolves from an airplane […]
The chicken farmer
News analysis One cannot help but feel sorry for commercial fisherman and former chicken farmer Russell Clark, one of the 735 people who hold permits to set net for salmon […]
Second guessings
A state fisheries biologist who fell victim to an unusual bear attack near Hidden Creek on the east end of Skilak Lake in mid-June says he doesn’t want to talk about […]
Humpies invade
KENAI RIVER – An unusual, odd-year flood of pink salmon into Alaska’s most popular river has state fisheries biologists scratching their heads, but a fishing guide here thinks he has the answer: […]
Bear spray fail?
The inevitable has happened in Wyoming where a hunting guide who doused an attacking grizzly bear with pepper spray is dead. It is impossible, however, to say definitively that the bear spray […]
Fishing for felony
Not often do Alaska’s notorious fish wars take a turn toward jail. Usually they are the source of much stomping and snorting at public meetings, and maybe some gunwale banging at sea. […]
Haeg’s hell
To understand why a small mob of law enforcement officers converged on the Alaska state courthouse in downtown Anchorage Monday to head off what looked to be a simple hearing heading rapidly […]