The following appears in the July issue of Alaska Sporting Journal: Editor’s note: Alaska’s wildlife is sustained by a network of biologists, technicians and field crews working across some of the most remote and complex landscapes in North America. While hunters...
Close-up photo of a large gray-colored Chinook salmon is held in a fisherman's hands, mouth wide open
A recreational fisherman holds a Chinook salmon in the Canadian Yukon. Credit: Adobe Stock
Yukon River Chinook salmon have been declining for decades. These declines have...
"Our hunters still bring caribou home, but they increasingly do so by driving farther, hunting in new places, changing when and how they travel, and working around the roads and rigs. That we have adapted does not mean the development has...
“It’s crushed me and our small town to have this majestic pregnant fin whale carried in dead on the bow of a mega-cruise ship,” said Jamie Lyons, Seward resident and water taxi captain. “With the opening of the new cruise ship...
“Even North America’s toughest chickadee is no match for the compounding climate disruption that’s hammering the Arctic, and these birds need all the help they can get right now,” said Cooper Freeman, Alaska director at the Center for Biological Diversity. “We’re...
The whale was entangled in the lines of two commercial Tanner crab pots, each pot weighing approximately 800 pounds. Responders believe the whale likely encountered one pot line while feeding and subsequently became entangled in the second pot while towing the...
"Our constitution states that uses of water are all subject to the general reservation of fisheries and wildlife.” Said Rick Halford, former Senate President. “This requires that resources be managed for the maximum benefit of the people. Healthy salmon runs provide...
