Do you ever stare at a map and wonder what that seemingly amazing place looks like in real life? Staring…
When I think about the Pleistocene, my mind naturally wanders to the large charismatic megafauna that dominated this period from…
The holidays are behind us, but there is still a whole lot of winter ahead. I love the rush and…
The variability in our winters during the last decade here has made it difficult to discern trends
It’s beginning to feel a lot like Christmas and has been since the big storm that arrived a few weeks…
One Father’s Day several years ago, my daughter and I drove out to the Drake/Skookum Lake Trail off Swanson River…
Climate change is changing conservation. We used to set goals and objectives around returning to historical conditions, a time when…
Just over a year ago, the Alaska Department of Fish and Game applied the pesticide rotenone to two lakes and…
They’re described as one of the biggest threats to Alaska’s marine environment, and you’ve probably never heard of them. This…
Editor’s Note: This is the second of a four-part series.
Editor’s note: This article was originally published in 2005. It is republished with some updates.
Bradford Washburn’s historic mountaineering and mapping expeditions in the far north of Alaska and the Yukon are legendary. He helped…
I’ve never been one to be partial to favorites. But, on an overcast and rain bath morning in mid-July, while…
