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Glacier Bay limits boat speeds due to whale numbers
Glacier Bay National Park and Preserve has implemented a 13-knot speed restriction in the area due to a…
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Saturday marks annual Twin Lakes Family Fishing Day
The Alaska Department of Fish and Game’s annual Family Fishing Day at Twin Lakes will be held from…
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Fire breaks down and builds up boreal forest
I once wrote about how fire had ravaged more than 10 percent of Interior Alaska during two smoky…
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Fish Factor: Legislature wreaks havoc with fisheries
The budget impasse with Alaska legislators is wreaking havoc on salmon fisheries across the state, and the industry…
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Don’t touch fawns
Don’t touch fawns The Alaska Department of Fish and Game, Division of Wildlife Conservation in Sitka reminds the…
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Woodshed Kings: Keep outside wood outside
Remember a few years ago when one of the local chain stores in Juneau tried selling Atlantic farmed…
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An Alaskan takes on the heat
One lap around the parking lot to warm up, and I was glazed in the layer of anticipatory…
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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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Collaboration provides water recirculation workshop
Fish Tech professor Jim Seeland, Pentair Aquatic Eco-Systems and DIPAC partnered to host a workshop to inform Alaskan…
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State awards nearly $300,000 in Clean Water Grants
The Alaska Department of Environmental Conservation will give $295,493 in Alaska Clean Water Actions grants. The ACWA partnership…
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Juneau kids explore Aureo, the yellow submarine
Before lowering himself into Aureo, an erstwhile research vessel brought to Juneau to teach kids about ocean sciences,…
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On the Trails: Here and there in May
The lower muskegs at Eaglecrest were dotted with pink flowers of bog rosemary and the white flowers of…
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Alaska Science Forum: Moose flies a high-summer Alaska pest
While boating down the Yukon River during the hottest summer recorded in Alaska (1915, when Fort Yukon reached…
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Foraging for goose tongue
On Shaman Island, during a day it seemed everyone in Juneau was outside embracing the sun, I had…
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Fish Factor: High prices – the talk of the town
Alaska’s salmon season officially got underway on May 16 with the arrival of thousands of sockeye and king…
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Off the Beaten Path: The brown bear and silver salmon
On my girlfriend’s first trip to Admiralty Island, we were picking salmon berries when we heard a bear…
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Alaska Science Forum: Big changes on a big Alaska peninsula
Larger than West Virginia, the Kenai Peninsula has the best of Alaska: coastal rainforests, two icefields, majestic deepwater…
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Off the Trails: Footloose in May
We took the old way up to Cropley Lake, through the woods, working our way around or over…
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Optimism for salmon prices in 2016
A new market analysis has an optimistic outlook for the 2016 salmon season — and goes a long…
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Dirt Girl: Creating your own hanging baskets
Like most people, I think of cascading flowers when I think of hanging baskets. Despite my predilection for…