Remember all those stories you read about how global warming was increasing the number of forest fires in Alaska, and those forest fires burning deep into soils were, in turn, accelerating warming […]
The good in bad
Trail’s end
A soft-spoken, rail-thin Anchorage musician and author once Alaska famous as one of the hardest of hard men on the Iditarod Trail is dead at the age of 66. Shawn Lyons for […]
Just trust us
Faith in the American mainstream media has fallen to the lowest point in 20 years on the Edelman Trust Barometer tracking attitudes toward U.S. businesses and institutions, and it takes the Russians […]
Vital overreach
After years of Alaska politicians complaining about “federal overreach” in the 49th state, one legislator is now arguing that it is vital in Cook Inlet, the waterway that cuts into the heart […]
Vanishing kings
A controversial study pointing to the ocean – and not dams or other freshwater issues – as responsible for a 65 percent decline in the productivity of Chinook salmon along the North […]
Missing salmon
Alaska’s commercial fishing season has come to an end with a smallish – by decadal average standards – statewide harvest of about 114 million salmon looking almost identical to the smallish statewide […]
The humpy swarm
As Alaska putters toward what looks to be its worst commercial salmon season in almost 40 years – despite another banner season for sockeye in Bristol Bay – Cook Inlet streams […]
Spray failure?
The discovery of an empty canister of bear spray near where 46-year-old Dan Schilling died in a bear attack on the Kenai Peninsula last week is raising questions about the popular deterrent. […]
Resilience
Water giants washing away the walls of Canyon Creek/Turnagain Arm National Heritage Area “The world breaks everyone and afterward many are strong at the broken places. But those that will not break […]
Bounty Bay
The sockeye salmon came late to Alaska’s Bristol Bay this year, but now look on track to exceed an Alaska Department of Fish and Game forecast that called for a harvest of […]
