Forest Service is livestreaming an underwater camera from near the Mendenhall Glacier Visitors Center
Outdoors
Alaska sets new boating fatality record
Usually a boating fatality story is a sad recounting of a life lost on the water. But not this story.
Smoke from Canadian wildfires blow through Panhandle
Several fires reported burning near Carmacks, Yukon Territory
Is whale watching crowding humpbacks in Alaska?
Is the North Pacific humpback whale no longer endangered? The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration could decide as early as today whether to pursue taking the whale off the Endangered Species list.
Chum catch down during second day of DIPAC fishery
Fishing slowed down for the eighty-five boats that participated in yesterday’s purse seine fishery in the Amalga Harbor special harvest area.
Researchers tagging salmon for tracking study
After last year’s disastrous fishing season, the Parnell administration launched a 5-year, $30 million effort to find out more about salmon life cycles in the ocean.
Update: 9 Rescued After Boat Runs Aground Near Auke Bay
The 36-foot motor vessel Islander ran aground at Shelter Island just outside Auke Bay.
“200-year-old fish” is actually only 64
The rockfish caught near Sitka last month was not 200 years old, but a different fish caught near Ketchikan was over 100 years old. The Department of Fish and Game lab in Juneau received two otoliths from two different fish. An otolith is a bone found within a fish’s ear that contains annuli, similar to…
Anchorage resident wins Mt. Robert’s Tram Run
An Anchorage resident, a JDHS high school student, and a novice runner from Juneau were the three fastest in Saturday’s Mt. Robert’s Tram Run. Forty-eight race participants took off from the Mt Roberts Tram building at 9 a.m. They continued up Franklin Street, took a right at 6th Street, a left onto Gold, followed Basin…
Forest Service to speed up Tongass transition plan
Both loggers and environmentalists are frustrated by the Forest Service’s shift, which is expected to take 10 to 15 years.