Below the gangway leading down to Harris Harbor, 25-year-old medical student Austin Jones split open his foldable kayak, revealing among water bottles, camping and survival… Continue reading
Alaskans Afield offers shotgun, waterfowl hunting classesThe Alaska Department of Fish and Game is offering two Alaskans Afield classes this August — one focusing on… Continue reading
Learn to fly fish, hunt for upland birdsThe Alaska Department of Fish and Game is offering several summer workshops through Beyond BOW (Becoming an Outdoors-Woman.)… 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 Johns Hopkins Glacier in Glacier Bay calves on July 11.… Continue reading
OUTSIDE THE UA MUSEUM OF THE NORTH — “Look, it’s a crab spider eating a moth!” says Declan Griswold, an 8-year-old who points to a… Continue reading
A stroll across Bridget Cove tide flats in early July brought us to a stand of eelgrass. To our surprise, the eelgrass was dotted with… Continue reading
A few weeks back I helped out with the Master Gardener tour. In between visitors, I had the chance to ask Sandy Williams a few… Continue reading
At 4:30 p.m. on a Tuesday, a beaver slept in its den on Steep Creek near the Mendenhall Glacier, its furry face aimed at an… Continue reading
THE MIRACLE OF WATERWater is everything. Without it, we don’t survive. Without pumping an entire river’s worth of it from hundreds of miles away, Southern… Continue reading
The tide was moderately low, a minus 3.9 or so, and four of us had the privilege of tagging along with a genial visiting algologist… Continue reading
COS JACKET — On a canoe trip down the lower Tanana River, we’ve scrambled up a sandy bank to explore a place that is less… Continue reading
The U.S. Forest Service has funded a contract issued by Southeast Conference through its partner, the Alaska Energy Authority, to the Cold Climate Housing Research… Continue reading
Five fishing and hunting workshops put on by the Alaska Department of Fish and Game are now open for registration. Two of the workshops, Step… Continue reading
WASHINGTON — Consumers wanting to know if their foods contain genetically modified ingredients will be able to find out for the first time.Congress sent legislation… Continue reading
In a unique agreement, a local volunteer organization formally partnered with the U.S. Forest Service to help maintain cabins and trails in Alaska’s two national… Continue reading
ANCHORAGE — Federal biologist Jay Orr never knows what’s going to come up in nets lowered to the ocean floor off Alaska’s remote Aleutian Islands,… Continue reading
HOW TO GILL A GIRL: SALMON FISHING IN HYDABURGLike a salmon, I grew up running wild. As a toddler, I chased my brother through the… Continue reading
AUGUST KING OPENER LIKELY IN SOUTHEASTSALMON TAKES CENTER STAGE EACH SUMMER BUT MANY OTHER FISHERIES ALSO ARE IN FULL SWING FROM KETCHIKAN TO KOTZEBUE.For salmon,… 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