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Breath of Wilderness
In September of 2014, my girlfriend MC and I met a First Nations man at a gas station…
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Board of Game calls for proposals
Want to influence Alaska’s hunting regulations? The Alaska Board of Game has called for proposed changes to hunting…
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Image of porcupine herd travels cross country
There are no photographs of bison spilling by the thousands across the Great Plains. By the time cameras…
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There’s more to fat than you may think
A recent spell of very cold weather made me think about (among other things) bears hibernating in their…
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Dippers swim Alaska rivers throughout winter
On the upper Chena River in the heart of a cold winter, a songbird appeared on a gravel…
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Wild Shots: Reader-submitted images of Mother Nature in Southeast Alaska
Submit your wild shots: The Empire Outdoors page is looking for superb images of Alaska’s wildlife, scenery or…
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Rainforest Photos Blog: Hiking abroad
I decided to break away from Juneau to spend New Year’s in Ireland. Directly after arriving in Dublin,…
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Birds in winter’s cold
The temperatures plummet to single digits, and maybe the winds howl too, and even if the lovely sun…
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There is life in dead wood
Deadwood — every bureaucracy has some! Yet each “deadwood” individual supports a vibrant community of personal bacteria, and…
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Mendenhall Glacier Visitor Center releases 2018 Fireside Lecture schedule
The Tongass National Forest has released the schedule for the 2018 Fireside Lectures at Mendenhall Glacier Visitor Center.…
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The most remote place in the U.S.
Richard Forman, a Harvard professor of landscape ecology, once visited a mangrove swamp in the Florida Everglades that…
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A Gustavus winter walk yields insights about clams, gulls and more
The good snow was long gone, leaving only some soggy snowplow berms along the roads, where moose and…
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Notes from ANWR
Edward Abbey, the iconic wilderness writer, called Alaska “the last pork chop” in an essay based around a…
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Driven by open ocean, Arctic continues to warm
NEW ORLEANS — At this gathering of thousands of scientists at a horseshoe bend of the lower Mississippi…
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Preparing for an invasion in the Bering Sea
Invasive species have devastated marine ecosystems in the Lower 48 but, thanks to its icy waters, the Bering…
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Fellowship focuses on coastal flooding
The average number of flooding disaster declarations or severe storms in Alaska has increased from one to four…
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US Forest Service to raise prices for printed maps
The price of national forest and grassland visitor maps will increase on Jan. 1, 2018. Currently, visitor maps…
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Fisheries Board calls for proposals
Want to have a say in how Alaska’s fisheries are managed? The Alaska Board of Fisheries wants to…
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Photo blog: Eaglecrest Run
What happened to winter? Rain on Douglas in December? Why no snow on the road? Avy gear? Yeah,…
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Declining AK birds subject of Audubon talk
This year, an unprecedented number of bird species made it on to the Audubon Alaska WatchList’s Red List,…