Only in Alaska where black is white With fisheries scientists now describing expanding populations of pink salmon as ecosystem disrupters across nearly the whole of the Northern Hemisphere, it is time someone […]
The masquerade
They’re everywhere
Update: This story was edited on Jan. 11, 2023 to include more information from the Scottish study. Half a world away from Alaska in the North Atlantic Ocean, the salmon with which […]
Welcome invader
For almost 90 years, people have been trying to introduce ring-necked pheasants to Alaska without luck, and yet the species never really disappears. Credit, or blame, the human yearning for some little […]
New AK record
An Alaska state record largemouth bass was pulled from Anchorage’s Sand Lake over the Labor Day weekend. It measured about seven and a half inches and was a first-ever catch in the […]
Hungry mouths
Fearful that Cook Inlet is increasingly coming under the influence of the big, pink-salmon ranch that is Alaska’s Prince William Sound, nine outdoor groups have banded together to ask the Alaska Board […]
To live and die in AK
The last mule deer in Fairbanks is dead, a sad victim of civilization. To some he was an immigrant pioneering a new land. To others, he was an invasive species. “He’d been […]
