Dick Griffith has trekked 10,000 miles of Alaska and the Canadian Arctic and is considered the grandfather of packrafting.
Mammoth remains discovered in the Pribilof Islands may belong to what was the last mammoth alive in Alaska.
Eric Beeman recounts the tale of a Kodiak deer hunt when a bear got to the deer before he and a client could.
Nick Jans encountered more bears than usual during his three week stay at home out the Haines Highway. And he wasn’t alone.
Alex Trebek, the longtime Jeopardy! host who died in November 2020 after a battle with pancreatic cancer, supported the Musk Ox Farm for more than three decades. The Palmer-based farm is a nonprofit dedicated to the domestication of muskox. It harvests qiviut, an ultra-fine wool, from the muskox and runs farm tours. In the late 1980s, the farm’s former executive director contacted Trebek after learning the game show host’s favorite animal was the muskox. A few months later, Trebek called the farm and the relationship was born. Trebek visited on several occasions. His foundation made financial donations to the farm, and for over 30 years he personally signed every adoption certificate for the nonprofit’s Friends of the Musk Ox program. His involvement was so consistent the staff referred to him as the “herd godfather.” The nonprofit’s current executive director, Mark Austin, says multiple celebrities have visited the farm over his…
Alaska gives some tips on the way way to cook salmon, how to befriend a moose, seeing Denali without clouds, and winning the Iditarod.
In a typical year, tourists visit Hyder, Alaska, to see bears and check out the community. The small town was affected dramatically in 2020.
Katie Ione Craney is an artist based in Haines who primarily works with scrap material and found objects.
Living as cabin dwellers on the shore of Lake Clark, Steve Kahn and Anne Coray find ways to entertain themselves. Like enjoying dinner for two at Browns.
The Nome National Forest features old Christmas trees and wooden cutouts, including a mermaid, all on the sea ice off the town’s coast.
