The climbing season on North America’s tallest mountain is now well over, and if it feels like you missed it, well, there’s a reason. And that involves a story not about mountaineering, […]
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Unhealthy parks
Alaska may be the last bastion of heart-healthy national parks, according to a study out this week warning that visiting a national park in the Lower 48 states could be bad for […]
Trekkers lost
Three National Park Service search teams were on the ground in the remote and rugged heart of the Wrangell St. Elias National Park today hoping to find some sign of an unidentified […]
Tourists, no tourists
Almost three decades on from passage of the Alaska National Interests Lands Act (ANILCA), the bonanza and the bust of 49th-state national parks is clearly outlined in a lengthy analysis of the […]
Pay for view
Denali National Park and Preserve: See it this summer and save 50 percent. The National Park Service has announced plans to jack the entry fee from $10 to $15 next year. The […]
A wolf dies
If a radio-collared wolf dies in Denali National Park and Preserve and no press release is written, does its death matter? Or are the deaths only of note when they come at […]
Wild divide
Former Alaska Gov. Tony Knowles this week led an exodus from the National Park Service advisory board, and some Alaskans were celebrating. Welcome to the 21st Century of divisiveness on all fronts.
Back to court
National Park Service nemesis John Sturgeon now uses a perfectly legal airboat to hunt the remote and wild Nation River near the Canadian border in Eastern Alaska, but his fight with the […]
Hiker found dead
The body of a hiker missing in Alaska’s Wrangell-St. Elias National Park and Preserve has been found along the banks of the Nizina River about a mile downstream from a long-abandoned […]
Another one gone
