No one can fly over the site of the Pebble project, look down at all of the wetlands and waterways, and then honestly say a mine won't hurt anything, columnist John Schandelmeier writes.
It's hard, muddy work, but it comes with fewer monetary risks than gillnet fishing.
Naknek is not running COVID scared, it's just being fishery conscious.
Water chilled by late snowmelt could be the culprit.
Snowmelt from a good snow year is keeping water temperatures lower, and the sockeye are late to arrive.
Optimists hope things will be normal once boats are on the water and the sockeyes show up.
In many cases, changes will not to be measured in weeks but rather by the changing of habits.
The thousand-mile sled dog race, held in the cold, dark heart of winter, is quintessential Alaska.
The bursting buds are the result of a complex program worked out by trees over thousands of years.
The loosely grouped herds are invariably led by an older pregnant cow who has traveled the route many times previously.
The tourists won’t be here en masse, and they’ll be missed more than you may think think.
People can hear birds sing in Paris, and frogs are croaking in sync in California.
