The following press release is courtesy of the Environmental Protection Agency: SEATTLE — EPA has selected communities in Alaska, Oregon and Washington for Brownfields environmental site assessment and cleanup grants. The grants, ranging from nearly $200,000 up to $600,000, will be used to conduct brownfield site assessments and cleanups to help redevelop vacant and … Read more Alaska Communities To Receive Cleanup Grants From EPA
A longtime Cordova fisherman was found dead after going overboard in the Copper River flats https://t.co/z6ynE2QiHZ pic.twitter.com/vCMIeMZ8rw — Anchorage Daily News (@adndotcom) May 31, 2017 Sad story in the Alaska Dispatch News on the death of a commercial fisherman who went overboard. Here’s ADN with more: A Cordova man was found dead Thursday after going overboard … Read more Fisherman Dies After Going Overboard
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Nobody is more of a history geek than this editor whenever he travels. If there’s a battlefield, museum or monument nearby, I want to see it. I’ve visited Civil War sites near Nashville and a Revolutionary War battlefield around Greensboro, North Carolina. In Greece I saw a memorial for locals murdered by Nazis and even … Read more Remembering The Maine, Remembrance On Memorial Day
Shortraker rockfish Photo: Rebecca Reuter, NOAA Fisheries The following is courtesy of Christine Baier of the the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Adminstration’s Alaska Fisheries Science Center: Some things just get better with age. Like rockfish mothers. A rockfish might not start spawning until she is 25 years old. As she gets older she produces … Read more New Information Helps Understand How Rockfish Live
The following press release is courtesy of the Alaska Department of Fish and Game: Bristol Bay Fishing Report for the week of May 25th Fresh Waters All rivers and most lakes are now ice free or nearly ice free. King Salmon Naknek River and Alagnak River Drainages It is still very early for kings … Read more Bristol Bay Fishing Update
The folliowing appears in the May issue of Alaska Sporting Journal: BY PAUL D. ATKINS The old saying goes, “If you want to catch a fish, you need to think like a fish.” The same could be said when hunting big game animals, and if you truly want to hunt a specific animal, you … Read more Kodiak Mountain Goat Hunting Not For The Weak