Outdoors Update

Seavey says he sued knife maker to get blade off market
Iditarod musher Mitch Seavey, facing criticism for suing a knife-maker over a 2011 accident on the Iditarod Trail, said the lawsuit is not about money: "My goal is to get the knife off the market," he said.

Troopers hike enforcement in safety corridors this weekend
With the start of Memorial Day weekend, Alaska State Troopers are stepping up enforcement in the four safety corridors across the state from now until July 1.

King salmon forecast promising despite cloudy, cold rivers
There's good and bad news for holiday-weekend fishing. First, the bad: It looks as though last winter's record snowfall has kept a few rivers colder than usual and off-color. The good news is that the first reports seem to forecast an average or better year for kings, and the halibut and trout fishing has been decent.

Lingering snow affects visitor services at Exit Glacier
National Park Service officials say more snow than usual is lingering in the Exit Glacier area northwest of Seward.

Officials try new methods to curb pike on Kenai Peninsula
An electric fence and water cannon will be part of an effort this summer to control invasive northern pike in a lake on the Kenai Peninsula.

2 Denali wolves killed in buffer zone, setting off public outcry
Conservationists are demanding an immediate halt to wolf trapping around Denali National Park after two primary breeding females from the park's best-known pack died, one of them killed by a trapper operating just outside the park's boundary.

Families sue over deaths of commercial Inlet clam diggers
The families of five clam diggers who died in a boat accident last year in Cook Inlet are suing the seafood company the men worked for, charging negligence over safety equipment and training.

Bald eagle is euthanized after being shot in the elbow
Alaska Raptor Center officials in Sitka say a bald eagle that had been shot had to be euthanized.