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Tenakee Inlet closed to personal shrimp fishing
The sport and personal use shrimp fisheries in Tenakee Inlet will remain closed in 2017 until further notice,…
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Unit 4 Goat Season to end
SITKA — Mountain goat registration hunt RG150 on Baranof Island will end Dec. 31. Successful hunters must submit…
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Unit 4 Brown Bear Season to end
SITKA — The brown bear registration hunt RB077 in Unit 4 (Admiralty, Baranof and Chichagof Island) will end…
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Unit 4 State Deer Season to end
SITKA — The Sitka black-tailed deer state hunting season in Unit 4 will end Dec. 31. Unit 4…
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Juneau area closed to personal shrimp fishing
The sport and personal use shrimp fisheries in the Juneau area will remain closed in 2017 until further…
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Christmas gift ideas for outdoorsmen and women
This August the editor of Alaska Magazine, looking for someone with Stone Age tendencies to test outdoor products…
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Small vertebrates in winter
Our recent spell of single-digit temperatures (at my house, if not in our local banana-belt) made me think…
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Alaska Science Forum: Tales of frozen water, from San Francisco
SAN FRANCISCO — On rare winter mornings here, a skim of ice forms on sidewalk puddles. But water’s…
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Fish board denies most winter kings proposals
Despite a number of proposals and public comments in favor, the Board of Fisheries made few changes to…
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Off the Trails: Snow-walkers
Snow was falling, snow on snow, as the song goes, and another four inches fell on the thick…
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Alaska Science Forum: To Alaska and then some for Yukon lynx
A lynx that roamed more than 200 miles from Kluane Lake in the Yukon Territory to near Chitina…
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Recent disputed actions under Obama
BILLINGS, Mont. — Republicans and business groups pledge to reverse or block a string of recent and pending…
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The science behind bioluminescence in the sea
Have you ever dipped a paddle or an oar into the sea on a dark night, or watched…
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Off the Beaten Path: Dear National Geographic: Please produce my reality show ‘Toughest Alaskan’
Dear National Geographic: Today, I offer a proposal more inspiring than your feature on the first ascent of…
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Federal judge tosses another fisheries management rule
Federal judges keep smacking down the North Pacific Fishery Management Council’s decisions. For the second time in the…
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Wild Shots
Submit your wild shots: The Empire Outdoors page is looking for superb images of Alaska’s wildlife, scenery or…
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Cross country ski club signup
Registration is now open for Juneau’s 4-H Cross Country Ski Club. Juneau youth between grades 1 and 12…
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Alaska Science Forum: Bowhead whales may be world’s oldest mammals
As biologist Craig George was helping Native whale hunter Billy Adams cut sections of blubber from a bowhead…
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Off the Trails: November musings and mysteries
November brought many small delights and some puzzles along the trails. On the first day of November, near…
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Halibut stock stable, flat harvest likely
ANCHORAGE — Stocks have stabilized and bycatch is as low as it’s been since 1960, however the halibut…