Alaska Outdoors

Camping in the Central Brooks Range.

Off the Beaten Path: Bears and caribou

Author’s note: This is the second installment of a three-part series about wolves I met during a walk in the Brooks Range. This piece begins… Continue reading

Camping in the Central Brooks Range.
Moon over mountains, Haines

Wild Shots

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

Moon over mountains, Haines

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 of Dan Moller Trail, just above the… Continue reading

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 an information night on traps for the… Continue reading

Iceberg, Baffin Island, Canada

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 — melts about a square foot of Arctic… Continue reading

Iceberg, Baffin Island, Canada

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 opened Nov. 1 and extends through Dec.… Continue reading

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 will start at 9 a.m. on Saturday… Continue reading

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. Proposals are due Dec. 1, 2016 and… Continue reading

A colorful autumn leaf.

Wild Shots

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

A colorful autumn leaf.
The Brooks Range in spring.

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 a trek in the Brooks Range.In August… Continue reading

The Brooks Range in spring.

Off the Trails: October scrapbook

Here is an assortment of observations from different places at different times during the month. This October must set some sort of record for sunny… Continue reading

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

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 attention of all America. But two days… Continue reading

Hal Needham of the Galveston Historical Foundation shows the downtown water mark from Hurricane Ike's storm surge in 2008.
A beaver rubbing his tail on his face at Mendenhall Glacier Lake late afternoon Monday.

Wild Shots

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

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

Correction

A photo caption for a “Wild Shot” reader-submitted photo that appeared in last Friday’s Outdoors section erroneously described a brown bear sow with a cub… Continue reading

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 this late in the season since weather… Continue reading

Americans ate more seafood last year

PORTLAND, Maine — The average American ate nearly a pound more seafood in 2015 than he or she did the previous year, the federal government… Continue reading

Dirt Girl: The mighty pumpkin patch

I missed most of the crisp, sunny fall weather here in Juneau but my mom, daughter, and I enjoyed those late summer days while on… Continue reading

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 few townsites we saw on the map.… Continue reading

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

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 teach. During a break, while munching granola… Continue reading

Sunset on Lynn Canal and Chilkat Mountains as seen from Grandchild Peak Ridge.
Moose Tracks: Tracks in the mud show the appearance of a moose near Brotherhood Bridge on Thursday.

Off the Trails: Tracks and thanks

Early October brought us an unprecedented stretch of lovely weather: cool and crisp in the morning, in the 50s by midday, and wonderful sunshine. Termination… Continue reading

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