Photo by Yukon National Wildlife Refuge As our Northwest Sportsman editor du jour Andy Walgamott pointed out, birds in Washington and Oregon have been diagnosed as carrying avian flu and for hunters there to err on the side of caution when...
We’ve been on deadline for the last few days, so apologies for just getting to this, but President Obama announced Bristol Bay, which has been in the news from an environmental standpoint for a while now, will be spared of any...
Apologies for not getting this out yesterday, but a hearty congratulations are in order for our correspondent Christine Cunningham. From the Kenai Peninsula Clarion: Kenai resident Christine Cunningham was still unable to process the announcement that she was the 2014 winner...
When I was growing up, about all I knew about wolverines came from the movie, Red Dawn, and that the Wolverines played football on Saturdays in Ann Arbor, Mich. But the real wolverines, those fierce carnivores that are officially members...
I’ve been mostly living away from my family ever since college, and while I come home a few times a year, I usually enjoy my time most visiting the homestead around Thanksgiving. It’s simply a superior holiday to the chaos of...
Hey, here’s some Bristol Bay news that isn’t centered around the Pebble Mine controversy (but if you, like, here’s this to peruse). The 2015 sockeye salmon forecast is projected to be one for the books: From the...
As we honor our troops on Veteran’s Day, our Tom Reale wrote this for our November issue about a special fishing trip: Story and photys by Tom Reale When someone asks you if you want to go on an...
This is probably not a surprise, but per Alaska’s reporting fish guru, Laine Welch, a lot of the nation’s wild salmon comes from Alaska: Here’s Welch, in the Homer Tribune: Alaska claimed the nation’s top three fishing ports for seafood catches...
