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It seemed somebody, maybe a bunch of somebodies, didn’t like the title or the rendition of an intense-eyed husky on the cover, or maybe both.
Oh-oh moment for Alaska salmon season With the Alaska commercial salmon season now more than 80 percent done with a harvest lagging behind the pre-season forecast, as was the case last year, the ti… ...
Will this science live on? Remember when we were all standing six feet apart in lines thinking that doing so was going to help protect us from Covid-19? Well, a team of physicists from the Universi… ...
Butterfly effect As of this writing, no researchers have specifically studied the effect of this expanded “cold wake” on sockeye salmon, but it is obvious there is a possible “butterfly effect” here.
Thank you, Canada Luckily for Alaskans, the Canadians, who are spending hundreds of millions of dollars on hatcheries to try to rebuild their failing Chinook stocks, appear not to have noticed and ...
With the unUnited States of America having become, collectively, the fattest, unfittest, unhealthiest and, in some ways, unfriendliest nations in the Western world thanks to the road-rage stresses of ...
Will fabled Kenai kings ever return? Before the waters of the North Pacific Ocean warmed and its population of pink salmon exploded, Alaska’s Kenai River was home to a run of giant king salmo… ...
While reality TV star Jessie “Moose Killer” Holmes and his wolf pack were charging toward a first Iditarod Trail Sled Dog Race victory on Wednesday, race organizers were busy killing the feel-good ...
Iditarod PR badly, badly botched The Iditarod Trail Sled Dog Race, an event that claims to be “all about the dogs,” this week disqualified a musher who was all about the dogs, lied abou… ...
Alaska-connected financier accused of swindle A one-time best bud of Alaskan Gabrielle "Ellie" Rubenstein, a member of the Permanent Fund Corporation's board of directors up until last summer, now has ...
These now unUnited States of America have a drug problem, and it’s a lot bigger than the illicit chemicals that have cost the country more than $1 trillion since the War on Drugs was declared in 1971.
Alaska salmon farmers who annually turn almost 2 billion hatchery fish loose to feed on the pastures of the North Pacific Ocean finally appear to have caught the attention of Canadians who’ve for ...