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State mismanagement Though Alaska fishery managers have done an admirable job of managing for salmon abundance since the 1980s, they have done a terrible job of managing salmon for economic value. In ...
A news analysis The Anchorage Police Department is refusing to identify the hit-and-run driver who a week ago killed 33-year-old Aaron Cleveland on Brayton Road, a state-designated "bike route'' that ...
When bears become ‘friends’ Take it from Ann Bryant, executive director of the Tahoe, Calif., Bear League, bears don’t kill people because “we’ve never had a bear kill anybody.” This is what she told ...
Why reporting is now so lame The truly sad thing about American journalism these days is the agenda-driven, narrow-mindedness that prevents reporters from seeing and reporting the complexities and the ...
Two dead Three years before Charlie and I met, I had been deeply involved in investigating the antics and eventual death of supposed “bear whisperer” Timmy and girlfriend Amie Huguenard in Katmai ...
Alaska-connected financier accused of swindle A one-time best bud of Alaskan Gabrielle "Ellie" Rubenstein, a member of the Permanent Fund Corporation's board of directors up until last summer, now has ...
“Ozempic is one brand name of a series of drugs called GLP-1 agonists that have exploded in popularity in the last few years. These injectables mimic hormones that slow digestion and trigger satiety, ...
Controversial finding To say that the findings of biologist David Welch and colleagues at Kintama Research Services in British Columbia were controversial would be an understatement. With many Pacific ...
A middle view In the wake of Templin’s presentation, Alaska Commissioner of Fish and Game Doug Vincent-Lang made a more nuanced statement as to his view on the hatchery boosting of Alaska salmon ...
The horribly gray state of misinformation A Harvard University survey of 150 of the country's top experts on "misinformation'' provides a wonderful illustration of why American journalism should have ...
Salmon processors too poor to pay sick leave Once the economic engine of the Alaska Territory, the commercial fishing industry in the 49th state is now in such dire straits that it says it can’t ...
Farming the sea State-funded, free-range salmon farming – “ranching,” as advocates of Alaska’s chosen method for farming salmon preferred to call it – began in the grim, salmon-short year of the 1970s ...