Alaska Outdoors

Courtesy photo Author Jeff Lund on a hike in the Sawtooth Mountains in Idaho.

Confessions from an angler and hunter: I have a gear-collecting problem

Companies should put the serve in service.

 

Wild Shots: Photos of Mother Nature in Alaska

Reader-submitted photos.

 

Courtesy Photo | Joan Travers Inspiring Girls Expeditions is holding two tuition-free expeditions for 16- and 17-year-old girls in Alaska this summer.

Program introduces girls to science expeditions in wilderness

Expeditions in Alaska will explore a glacier and the intertidal zone.

 

A winter walk in Gustavus

The day began in quiet leisure.

Glacier in retreat: What the Taku is teaching us about climate change

A changing climate has caught up with the glacier.

Michael S. Lockett | Juneau Empire Stephen Lewis, a researcher with U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, gives a presentation on golden eagles in Alaska at University of Alaska Southeast on Thursday.

Scientists seek to learn more about Alaska’s golden eagles

Golden eagles are the most widespread eagle on Earth.

Michael S. Lockett | Juneau Empire Stephen Lewis, a researcher with U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, gives a presentation on golden eagles in Alaska at University of Alaska Southeast on Thursday.
Eric Prestegard, outgoing executive director of Douglas Island Pink & Chum, Inc., leads a tour of the Macaulay Salmon Hatchery in this January 2016 file photo. (Michael Penn | Juneau Empire File)

DIPAC’s longtime executive director retires

He had been executive director since 2002.

Eric Prestegard, outgoing executive director of Douglas Island Pink & Chum, Inc., leads a tour of the Macaulay Salmon Hatchery in this January 2016 file photo. (Michael Penn | Juneau Empire File)
Adeline Hiemstra, a 14-year-old eighth grader at Randy Smith Middle School in Fairbanks, presented at the massive American Geophysical Union Fall Meeting in December 2019 in San Francisco. (Ned Rozell | For the Juneau Empire)

Northern news from a massive conference

Alaska Science Forum.

Adeline Hiemstra, a 14-year-old eighth grader at Randy Smith Middle School in Fairbanks, presented at the massive American Geophysical Union Fall Meeting in December 2019 in San Francisco. (Ned Rozell | For the Juneau Empire)

Like the first time

Hearing ourselves out.

Fungi — more friends than foe

It would be a dull life without them.

At the tipping point: How do we stop cruise ship tourism from going overboard?

How did we get here and are we doing enough to protect our town from tourism’s effects?

Ice fog forms at about minus 35 Fahrenheit. (Ned Rozell | For the Juneau Empire)

The physics of 40 below

Life rolls on.

Ice fog forms at about minus 35 Fahrenheit. (Ned Rozell | For the Juneau Empire)

Beaver Builders at the Mendenhall Minis series Jan. 11

Open and free to the public.

How do crabs, spiders and slugs breathe?

It’s not how you think.

Alaska blackfish in a world of its own

Meet an evolutionary loner.

The Alaska State Fish Art competition will be held with entries due by March 31, 2020. (Courtesy Photo | Forest Service)

Forest Service fishing for student art of fish in Alaska

How good are your fish drawing skills?

The Alaska State Fish Art competition will be held with entries due by March 31, 2020. (Courtesy Photo | Forest Service)

West Coast fishery rebounds in rare conservation ‘home run’

Rock bottom no more.

Column: What’s the dollar value of wild salmon produced by the Tongass and the Chugach?

Who says money doesn’t grow on trees?

Another decade down

Here’s to the next 10.

Take a deep breath: How animals, like big blue whales and lungless salamanders, breathe

Inhale, exhale (or not).