Above: A large mother bear emerges through the fog and tall grasses toward the camera at Lake Clark National Park, Alaska. Photo by Michelle Theall FAT BEAR WEEK…
Alaska has a legacy of bigger-than-life media personalities who ruled the presses like old-fashioned newspaper barons.
September brings the end of blueberry season across much of Alaska. As you put away the last of your annual supply, consider this small sampling of Indigenous names that have long been used for this nutritious Alaskan superfood:
Above: Clarks Point students Adrianna Wassily-Wood and Mary Wassily-Wood with mini Yup’ik drums they made to celebrate their culture and Orange Shirt Day. Photo by Deanna Baier On…
This excerpt from Mr. Engelhard’s new memoir, Arctic Traverse: A Thousand-Mile Summer of Trekking the Brooks Range, (Mountaineers Books) is printed with permission.
Above: Barry Arm in Prince William Sound. The slope that could slide is pictured left of the Barry Glacier (middle glacier). Photo by William Rome Public lands, the…
Above: Paul Claus At 24 hours old, Paul Claus took his first flight in a Piper Super Cub. Sixty-five years later, he can still be found soaring across…
Public lands come in many shapes, including the giant oval dome that is Great Sitkin Mountain in the central Aleutian Islands 26 miles east of Adak. Rising to 5,709 feet, Great Sitkin (Sitх̑naх̑ in Aleutian) is part of the Alaska Maritime National Wildlife Refuge, managed by U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service. It is also within the federally designated Aleutian Islands Wilderness.
The Molly Hootch case, which ultimately dismantled a discriminatory education system for rural Alaska Native students, was first filed in Anchorage on August 1, 1972.