Spoiled by years of good fishing at the mouth of the Kenai River in mid-July, Alaska personal-use dipnetters seem primed to explode at the Alaska Department of Fish and Game for its […]
Dipnet bummer days
Grizzly bear gone lost
Fate may have intervened to save the life of a young grizzly bear on whose head Denali National Park officials imposed a death sentence earlier this month. The subadult bear appeared doomed […]
Denali bear hunt ongoing
As the hunt continues for a grizzly bear that last week bit a hiker in Alaska’s Denali National Park and Preserve, National Park Service officials are discovering a dichotomy familiar to most […]
Catch, release, kill fish
Part 1 of 2 If you believe the science, somewhere around 4.8 million sockeye salmon were likely caught and released in Bristol Bay last year and half them died before spawning. That’s […]
The money fish
New economic data might make Alaskans want to think twice about cursing those fish-filled coolers soon to start passing through Ted Stevens International Airport in Anchorage. Tourists appear willing to pump a […]
Bear charges Homer hiker
The grizzly bear that three times charged Homer resident Carlos Lozano this week before being driven off with bear spray really shouldn’t have come as a big surprise, but it did as […]
