Joe Orsi recommends carefully digging the garlic plants out from below, washing the bulbs, and peeling off some of the wrappers before hanging them to dry.
Outdoors
As bee populations decline, a statewide study looks into Alaska’s other pollinators
The goal of the project is to collect more comprehensive data on all pollinator species, including those on Mitkof Island.
LISTEN: California wildfire claims former Juneau radio reporter’s hometown
The largest wildfire in California’s history is burning a destructive swathe that, as of Monday, is nearly 900 square miles.
Why is it so hard to find bait herring just before Juneau’s big salmon derby?
It turns out that in Canada, it’s not that they didn’t catch enough herring. It’s that they were the wrong size.
This sweet white flower is actually a sneaky carnivore, scientists discover
“We had no idea it was carnivorous,” says Sean Graham, a botanist with the University of British Columbia. “This was not found in some exotic tropical location, but really right on our doorstep in Vancouver. You could literally walk out from Vancouver to this field site.”
These Minnesotans were having a great canoe trip with their toddler in Northwest Alaska. Then the rains came.
As Kotzebue had its wettest month on record, a small group from Minnesota floated the Noatak River in a canoe, with a toddler.
Bitten on hand, Alaskan remembers bear’s bad breath 25 years later
It was the summer of 1996 when William Young — an Alaskan fond of wilderness and solitude — survived an attack by a brown bear.
New public recreation cabin going up behind Petersburg
The wood came from a sawmill in Hoonah. The new cabin replaces one that was further along the alpine ridge, another mile south of town.
Kikkan Randall is returning to Anchorage to lead the club she grew up skiing in
Randall has been living in Canada but grew up in Anchorage and won an Olympic gold medal in 2018.
Plan to lease land near Ester for mine draws ire from residents, recreators
The Ester Community Association is opposing the plan, saying it would have broad impacts on the many Fairbanks-area residents who come to enjoy the area’s underdeveloped forestland and maze of back trails.