As the Alaska commercial salmon fishery, once a mainstay of the 49th state economy, trundles along bound by decades-old rules designed to maximize inefficiency, the world keeps moving forward in the name […]
Relentless tech
Two Americas
PORT OF TACOMA – On the road for 2,500 miles through the American Heartland from near the Motor City that shaped the nation’s 20th century to the edge of the Pacific Ocean, […]
The futurist
If you are an Alaska commercial fisherman or someone who simply cares about the fate of the state’s small, rural communities still dependent on commercial fishing as their economic reason to […]
COVID hits kings
Alaska’s first big, commercial salmon fishery of the season will open this week sans what has become the traditional Seattle fanfare. Blame COVID-19. With Seattle restaurants still in lockdown to slow the […]
Fast Great Race
News analysis The Iditarod Trail Sled Dog Race roared through the Alaska Range on Monday with its old title fading in the slipstream. There is little doubt now that thanks to modern […]
Climate refugia
This an open letter to the residents and businesses of Silicon Valley from Anchorage, Alaska, where the temperature in the Front Range Chugach Mountains today hit 50 degrees and the 49th state’s […]
Wild values
As this is written, the author is sitting at a keyboard pretty well pounded by Alaska. Three and half hours of steady paddling from the seat of a packraft after a four-and-half-hour, […]
Untouched salmon
The future of commercial salmon processing will go online in Norway later this year when the machines take over a plant just north of the Arctic Circle. If the operation proves […]
Faster Iron Dogs
The sun had barely set over the vast Alaska Interior Sunday when Todd Minnick and Nick Olstad led the world’s longest, toughest snowmobile race into the tiny, outpost community of McGrath. […]
