“I’m proud to be on the ground in Alaska – hearing the stories and seeing first-hand both the differences USDA has made in people’s lives and the infrastructure gaps that still exist in rural communities,” USDA Rural Utilities Service Administrator Andy...
The harder you fight the fish, the harder they’ll fight you, so you’ll just want to grind on the reel smoothly and keep the rod tip loaded against the fish. If slack develops, the halibut will execute some ribbon-like full-body gyrations...
Two mountaineering rangers conducted a ground search from the 14,200 Foot Camp and could get visuals on Hatanaka’s location at approximately 15,100 feet on the upper Peters Glacier. Four more mountaineering rangers were on their way from the 14,200 Camp to assist in...
At around 2 am on Saturday morning, rangers were notified of the fall by the climber’s partner. At approximately 11 pm, Friday night the two were on the West Buttress just above the fixed line at around 16,000 feet. The partner...
“Crab and salmon harvests are critical to the livelihoods of thousands of Washington state families and local economies across the Pacific Northwest,” said Senator Murray. “Our fishermen and small businesses have been grappling with disasters that have hit year after year...
“The North Pacific council has not meaningfully addressed critical issues such as climate change, access to fisheries for Alaska’s coastal fishing communities, and the trawl fleet’s bycatch of Chinook salmon, chum salmon, red king crab, snow crab, halibut, sablefish and many...