See no evil, hear no… Update: A late-to-the party Alaska Department of Fish and Game has now added some new information to what happened in Bear Valley while managing to ignore the […]
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Dependent Alaska
49th state near last in “independence” No matter how much some Alaskans might like to think of their state as a stronghold for the conservative virtues of individual effort, hard work and […]
Deadly flights
Retired BIA director victim of risky job Ten days before Gene Peltola’s 2022 retirement from his position as Alaska director for the Bureau of Indian Affairs – where he championed the […]
The narrative
A lesson in how news is spun The Alaska Department of Fish and Game made a huge mistake in the wake of the aerial execution of nearly 100 brown/grizzly bears and a […]
Ultimate fish war
What the federal government has against guys like Oscar Evon is hard to figure out, but it must be something. Who you ask is Oscar Evon? Evon is the director of regional […]
The ever war
The state of Alaska and the federal government appear headed toward yet another tussle over the long controversial and divisive issue of “subsistence,” but this time with a twist. Not only are […]
The propagandist
The woman who filled the roll of “fisheries reporter” for Alaska’s largest newspaper for years has retired with an admission of what was obvious to fishery-educated readers a long-time ago: She was […]
Legal waste
The commercial fishing season is underway in Alaska’s Cook Inlet and along with it the bycatch waste no one wants to talk about let alone deal with. If the fish caught in […]
Common property
Almost four decades ago, a Juneau salmon seiner by the name of Wayne Alex filed a lawsuit aimed at blocking the state of Alaska from taxing commercial fishermen to finance hatcheries. The […]
Forgotten tribe
Once again, an Alaska leader is in a battle with federal officialdom more than 3,000 miles away on the opposite coast of the North American continent. This time it is Gov. Mike […]
