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Intermittent closure of Dan Moller Trail

The Juneau Snowmobile Club will be conducting helicopter sling load operations to transport gravel to a 115-foot section…

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Sharing the trails with traps information night

Trapping season in the Juneau area opened Nov. 1, and the Department of Fish and Game is providing…

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Call for proposals on migratory bird subsistence harvest

The annual period to submit proposals to change migratory bird subsistence harvest regulations for the 2018 April-August season…

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2nd Annual Fall Shoot Invitational

The Juneau Gun Club’s Trap Team is hosting their second annual tournament this weekend, Nov. 5-6. The shooting…

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Juneau Ranger District seeks applications for natural resource projects

The Forest Service invites the public to submit funding applications for natural resource projects in the Juneau area.…

A colorful autumn leaf.

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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…

The Brooks Range in spring.

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Off the Beaten Path: A desperate wolf

Editor’s note: This is the first of a two-part installment about encounters with wolves the author had during…

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Off the Trails: October scrapbook

Here is an assortment of observations from different places at different times during the month. This October must…

Hal Needham of the Galveston Historical Foundation shows the downtown water mark from Hurricane Ike's storm surge in 2008.

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Alaska Science Forum: Engineering adaptions to high water

After Hurricane Ike in 2008 shoved six feet of water into downtown Galveston, Texas, people there had the…

Iceberg, Baffin Island, Canada

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Study links human actions to specific Arctic sea ice melt

WASHINGTON — Driving a gas-powered car about 90 miles — the distance between New York and Philadelphia —…

A beaver rubbing his tail on his face at Mendenhall Glacier Lake late afternoon Monday.

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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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Correction

A photo caption for a “Wild Shot” reader-submitted photo that appeared in last Friday’s Outdoors section erroneously described…

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Alaska Science Forum: Life on barrier islands, north and south

GALVESTON, TEXAS — Here on this alligator-shaped mound of sand, the temperature of 88 is the warmest recorded…

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Americans ate more seafood last year

PORTLAND, Maine — The average American ate nearly a pound more seafood in 2015 than he or she…

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Dirt Girl: The mighty pumpkin patch

I missed most of the crisp, sunny fall weather here in Juneau but my mom, daughter, and I…

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Ghost towns scattered across the Alaska map

On a recent river trip down the Porcupine River, my friend Garrett Jones and I nosed into a…

Sunset on Lynn Canal and Chilkat Mountains as seen from Grandchild Peak Ridge.

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Off the Beaten Path: Remembering the Princess Sophia

The other day I trudged along Grandchild Peak ridge on an outing for a college backpacking class I…

Moose Tracks: Tracks in the mud show the appearance of a moose near Brotherhood Bridge on Thursday.

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Off the Trails: Tracks and thanks

Early October brought us an unprecedented stretch of lovely weather: cool and crisp in the morning, in the…

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Public gets open mic at first day of fish board meeting

SOLDOTNA — Fishermen and the fisheries-inclined turned out by the dozens Tuesday for an open hearing before the…

Researchers collect last whale bones off Anchorage shore

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Researchers collect last whale bones off Anchorage shore

ANCHORAGE — Researchers in Alaska will soon have access to the only complete humpback whale skeleton in the…