The Iditarod Trail Sled Dog Race is now saying it is unclear as to whether a dog that died at the end of the 1,000-mile race across Alaska this year fell victim […]
A dog dies
Fish food
News analysis Ÿnsect, a French insect farm, has just raised $125 million in startup capital to mark the biggest agtech funding deal in European history, according to AgFunder News.com. And half a […]
Good news bad
News analysis The bright spot for one of Alaska’s largest industries is that the prices paid to commercial fishermen for salmon look to be headed up this year and could keep trending […]
Clean fish
News analysis The World Wildlife Fund (WWF) was out this week with an ominous warning about the disappearance of global fish and wildlife, and the huge volumes of plastic in the […]
Fishing for votes
News analysis Alaska Gov. Bill Walker got most of the Hatfields and some of the McCoys of Cook Inlet salmon fishing together for a sitdown in Anchorage on Friday, and Commissioner of […]
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, […]
To build a fire
About a week before Christmas, 26-year-old Mike Watkins took off on a snowmachine adventure in the foothills of the Alaska Range mountains about 100 miles north of the state’s largest city. He […]
Dangerous warmth
The weather was cooling in wild and remote Western Alaska when the body of 37-year-old Mark Kasayulie was pulled from the Kuskokwim River on New Year’s Day. His death came only days […]
