News analysis Good news at last for salmon-loving Alaskans who’ve watched sockeye returns to the fabled Copper River spurt and falter this year. No, the Copper hasn’t witnessed the miraculous return of […]
Unexpected bounty
Chitina shutdown
The bad news thousands of Alaskans dipnetters expected to hear is now official: The Copper River personal-use fishery near Chitina will officially close at midnight Sunday and remain closed indefinitely. “I […]
5 fish myths
Summer has arrived in the north, and with it there is everywhere talk of fish. In Alaska, some of the people fish all of the time, and most of the […]
Unexpected rescue
After a gnarly crossing of the Harding Icefield from near the small town of Seward to the remote eastern edge of Skilak Lake on the Kenai Peninsula last week, about the last […]
The transformer
Thirty-six years ago this summer, Anchorage’s Dick Griffith blew up an inflatable boat on the east bank of the Kenai Peninsula’s Skilak River and set in motion a chain of […]
The killing season
CHITINA – By late afternoon Wednesday, the winds funneling out of Wood Canyon to the south of the Chitina-McCarthy bridge were driving a Sahara-Desert-style sandstorm across the exposed sandbars off the low […]
