Happy Thanksgiving from Alaska Sporting Journal! Here’s a story from our Bjorn Dihle about a family that is likely thankful for the bounty that Alaska offers. BY BJORN DIHLE Hunting guide Tia Shoemaker is fighting tooth and nail to ensure future...
Obviously this is huge Thanksgiving eve news. Here’s more from the Anchorage Daily News: The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers said the agency “determined that the applicant’s plan for the discharge of fill material does not comply with Clean Water Act...
The following appears in the November issue of Alaska Sporting Journal: BY CHRIS COCOLES Few Southeast Alaskans are as knowledgeable about the region’s maze of rivers, streams and creeks as Mark Hieronymus.But even an expert sleuth like Hieronymus, Trout Unlimited’s Alaska...
The following appears in the November issue of Alaska Sporting Journal: BY CHRIS COCOLES One of so many luxuries the COVID-19 pandemic took away from us was March Madness, college basketball’s men’s and women’s tournaments that were cancelled just a week...
Northern Dynasty Minerals, which is heading up the Pebble Mine project, submitted to the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers its Compensatory Mitigation Plan for the Pebble project just short of the 90-day deadline. Here’s a bit of the press release: Following...
One of my favorite films, Miracle (chronicling the 1980 U.S. Olympic men’s hockey team’s gold medal. One throwaway scene that I couldn’t find video for was when Kurt Russell’s Coach Herb Brooks character is speaking to his wife from a rural...
Earlier this year we featured Discovery Channel’s latest installment of its hit series Deadliest Catch, emphasizing the crab boats’ competition with Russian fishing vessels. But at no point is it suggested anything more than business rivalries. But the U.S. and Russia...
Here’s more from the Alaska Journal of Commerce (via the Anchorage Daily News): The 2020 Upper Cook Inlet harvest of roughly 1.2 million salmon was less than half the recent 10-year average harvest of 3.2 million fish and the estimated cumulative...