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    Rain, rumors and salmon

    Rain is slopping down, the wind gusting to 30. My fishing partner, Andrew Greene, and I just called it quits on the season. It's tough to do when you're thinking salmon, stinking of salmon, dreaming salmon -- very addicted to fishing the way we are. But, today is the last day of the commercial...

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    Subsistence food weaves a web of many theads

    Last summer I helped Colleen Swan and her family till a garden and plant a raised bed garden box in Kivalina. Colleen has been getting more and more interested in growing food. Afterwards, her parents, Joe and Lona Swan, invited me inside to eat lunch.

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    Tales of an Arctic garden boy

    When I was a kid, workers from the Maniilaq Garden Project would come to Ambler to assist gardeners. A lady named Sue Cohn ran the program. I remember she gave my parents some of the leftover supplies for their gardens: rakes and a tiny shovel called a trowel that you dug with instead of just...

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    Special time with daughter

    Flying into Kotzebue in early May -- coming back from Mount McKinley -- I saw it was still winter, good traveling, and that I could head upriver to my old home along the Kobuk.

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    Eruption turned June into winter

    June in Kodiak is a month of endless light. Even after midnight, the sun softens more than sets. But one hundred years ago, late in the afternoon on June 6, 1912, daylight was snuffed out completely.

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    Climbing Denali in the tracks of Belmore Browne

    This winter on the lagoon ice behind Kotzebue and in the hills and mountains, local residents may have witnessed a bizarre sight: a white guy on snowshoes, dressed in bright orange bibs and a blue Gore-Tex jacket, carrying a heavy pack and dragging a log lashed in an orange plastic kiddie sled...

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    What did the manufacturer do to my Pilot Bread?

    I'm allergic to a lot of things. So allergic, the FDA should hire me to test food additives. The last time my daughter bought sour cream I scratched all night -- something new they put in, I guess. I'm not alone; food allergies are on the rise in America. That's one of the reasons I'm a strong proponent...

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    Worf was a tough dog to love -- but boy, was he worth it

    A dog bonds with an Alaska family and leaves behind memories of one unique animal.

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    Shutting the door can be a major project in the Bush

    This Saturday morning I had a long list of things to do. I finished my coffee and jumped up to stoke the stove before getting started. "What about the door?" my wife Stacey said. She was still drinking her coffee. "Nome is already blowing."

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    It's caribou time on the tundra, which delights photographers

    Caribou are flowing down the coast, from as far as Kivalina or farther, coming across the ice, and up over the tundra near Kotzebue. There's fresh snow on the ground, good enough for traveling, even if many creeks are still impassible thickets and the ice not entirely safe.

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