PHOTO BY JEFF LUND Many of our stories in Alaska Sporting Journal provide you with tips and experiences for do-it-yourself Alaskan adventures. While having a guide is comforting, and, in many instances, more likely conducive to fishing or hunting success, there’s a...
Happy Fourth of July all! One of the stories we have running in this month’s Alaska Sporting Journal is something I don’t think I would even attempt: the Mount Marathon Race in Seward. Fortunately, two of our intrepid ASJ contributors, Bixler McClure...
The State of Alaska has decided to not carry on with another season of the National Geographic Channel reality series Alaska State Troopers. From the Alaska Dispatch: Trooper director Col. James Cockrell on Tuesday emailed Department of Public Safety employees announcing...
Good news for Kenai River-area anglers: for the first time in a year, starting today, you can keep a coveted king from the river. From the Anchorage Daily News : King salmon returns to the Kenai have plummeted since 2009,...
Editor’s note: This story appears in the June issue of Alaska Sporting Journal. Alaskan Sara Pozonsky is making a documentary on the farmed salmon vs. wild salmon controversy. BY CHRIS COCOLES The boat speeds across the waters off the northeast coast...
Moose meat is a need for subsistence hunters in the Alaskan Interior. So state wildlife biologists made the decision to shoot 64 bears (54 black bears and 10 grizzlies) in the Kuskokwim River area with the intention of maintaining the...
A young Alaskan woman played dead during a frightening bear attack. From Yahoo news: The bear knocked Gamboa down, then picked her up and threw her to the ground. The bear went on to pummel Gamboa several times more...
The Funny River fire has burned 156,000 acres of Kenai Peninsula land, prompting 600 firefighters into action to help slow down the blaze that, per the Anchorage Daily News, jumped the Kenai River over the holiday weekend. Our frequent contributors,...
