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Pebble suits proceeding; DNR rebuts reclamation report

ANCHORAGE – Pebble Limited Partnership is asking for legal fees to wrap up one lawsuit against the Environmental…

Thunder Mountain viewed through a winter wonderland on Nov. 26.

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Submit your wild shots: The Empire Outdoors page is looking for superb images of Alaska’s wildlife, scenery or…

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Wildlife Wednesdays: Beavers at Mendenhall

The Alaska Wildlife Alliance presents its speaker series, Wildlife Wednesdays, at the Mendenhall Valley Public Library from 7-8…

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Glacier Bay National Park gets app

Glacier Bay National Park now has its own app. The program, called “Glacier Bay National Park Chimani,” runs…

Hubbard Glacier calves into Disenchantment Bay north of Yakutat.

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Alaska Science Forum: State taking shape near Yakutat

The forces shaping Alaska never sleep, especially near Yakutat. I once visited the fishing town of about 800…

In this Tuesday, Nov. 22, 2016 photo, provided by Mel Buckmaster, Wayne Douville poses with an eight-point doe he shot in Abrams in northeastern Wisconsin.

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Wisconsin hunter kills trophy eight-point … doe?

GREEN BAY, Wis. — A Wisconsin hunter has killed an eight-point … doe? WLUK-TV reported that Wayne Douville…

Barrow's goldeneye female, showing the diagnostic yellow bill.

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Off the Trails: Flapping around in a super full moon

In mid November, the tide tables told us that there would be some big (over 20-foot) tides during…

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Pennsylvania hunters can use semi-automatic weapons

HARRISBURG, Pa. — Gov. Tom Wolf has signed a bill into law that expands the list of firearms…

Colorful sunrise over Eagle Peak.

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JGC November shoot results

The Juneau Gun Club held it’s November shoot Nov. 5-6. Brice Norton, 14, took high over-all honors with…

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Thanksgiving Turkey shoot

The Juneau Gun Club, the Juneau Shooting Sports Foundation, the Juneau Archery Club, and the Alaska Department of…

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Archery area closed to Mountain Goat hunting in Unit 1C

Biologists with the Alaska Department of Fish & Game in Douglas announced an early closure to the mountain…

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Iliamna Lake Seal not endangered, NMFS says

The National Marine Fisheries Service determined that the Iliamna Lake Seal, a population of seals that overwinter in…

An Arctic ground squirrel in Katmai National Park in late August.

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Pictured is a map of the sea floor off western Alaska showing Zhemchug Canyon, one of the largest canyons in the world. It is from a 1970 paper in Marine Geology by D. Scholl, E. Buffington, D. Hopkins and T. Alpha.

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Alaska Science Forum: A visit to one of Earth’s greatest canyons

People wait years for permits to raft the Grand Canyon. Michelle Ridgway once visited a much larger canyon…

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Off the Beaten Path: Wolves of the Noatak

Note to reader: This is last piece in a three-part installment that focuses on encounters with wolves I…

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Off the Trails: The color green

All summer long, we live in a sea of green. The forest, the bogs, the meadows are awash…

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Alaska Science Forum: Should birds stay or should they go?

Biologist Susan Sharbaugh, formerly of the Alaska Bird Observatory, once spoke about the strategies birds employ to survive…

Camping in the Central Brooks Range.

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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…

Moon over mountains, Haines

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