Today, I’m proposing the revolutionary creation of a board of outdoor fashion. The idea came to me in the depths of winter while I was… Continue reading
WASHINGTON — You fly more than 100 miles for love. You get rejected. You fly another 100 miles. Another rejection. And another.That’s the high-flying but… Continue reading
DENVER — Some elusive and charismatic lynx have been parading past awe-struck Colorado residents and visitors this winter, electrifying social media and giving biologists reason… Continue reading
Rod Boertje knew it was getting cold when Park Service rangers took the dogs inside. Boertje, then a graduate student in wildlife biology at the… Continue reading
Submit your wild shots: The Empire Outdoors page is looking for superb images of Alaska’s wildlife, scenery or plant life. Send your photos to: Outdoors… Continue reading
I like to take a walk just to see what I can see, like the bear that went over the mountain, in the old song.… Continue reading
The next Wildlife Wednesday lecture will discuss the population decline of tree swallows.Brenda Wright, a naturalist and birder, will give a talk titled “Where have… Continue reading
Wonderful snow! Brightening our short December days; under that full moon, it was spectular.All that glorious snow drew me out, day after day, looking for… Continue reading
A few years ago while looking for deer, I listened to trees creaking and moaning in a Southeasterly gale. Snow fell steadily, illuminating the gloomy… Continue reading
T. Neil Davis has died at 84, in his Fairbanks home. The scientist/author/doer was a graduate student and later director at UAF’s Geophysical Institute. In… Continue reading
Submit your wild shots: The Empire Outdoors page is looking for superb images of Alaska’s wildlife, scenery or plant life. Send your photos to: Outdoors… Continue reading
The sport and personal use shrimp fisheries in Tenakee Inlet will remain closed in 2017 until further notice, according to the Alaska Department of Fish… Continue reading
SITKA — Mountain goat registration hunt RG150 on Baranof Island will end Dec. 31. Successful hunters must submit hunt reports and goat horns for age… Continue reading
SITKA — The brown bear registration hunt RB077 in Unit 4 (Admiralty, Baranof and Chichagof Island) will end Dec. 31. Successful hunters must submit hunt… Continue reading
SITKA — The Sitka black-tailed deer state hunting season in Unit 4 will end Dec. 31. Unit 4 includes all of Admiralty, Baranof and Chichagof… Continue reading
The sport and personal use shrimp fisheries in the Juneau area will remain closed in 2017 until further notice, according to the Alaska Department of… Continue reading
This August the editor of Alaska Magazine, looking for someone with Stone Age tendencies to test outdoor products and write a gear review column, asked… Continue reading
Our recent spell of single-digit temperatures (at my house, if not in our local banana-belt) made me think about our smallest birds and mammals and… Continue reading
SAN FRANCISCO — On rare winter mornings here, a skim of ice forms on sidewalk puddles. But water’s solid form is mostly an abstraction in… Continue reading
Despite a number of proposals and public comments in favor, the Board of Fisheries made few changes to the Lower Cook Inlet’s winter saltwater king… Continue reading
