Boating safety The Alaska Office of Boating Safety will hold a free Alaska water wise course on Saturday at the Alaska Department of Fish and Game Hunter Education Indoor Shooting Range. The 9 a....
Chitina dip net harvest down in 2009
FAIRBANKS – The preliminary harvest numbers for the 2009 personal-use dip net fishery at Chitina are some of the lowest on record. With about 83 percent of permits returned, the estimated ...
Mixed forecast for Copper River salmon
FAIRBANKS – This year’s Copper River salmon projections for sockeye and king salmon are a mixed bag for fishermen. The Alaska Department of Fish and Game is projecting a Copper River red s...
Alaska game board gets report on hunt with new rules
ANCHORAGE , Alaska – The Alaska game board got an update Friday on the first year of a new moose and caribou hunt for eight Alaska Native villages. Becky Schwanke with the Division of Wildl...
Banff film festival to stop in Fairbanks
FAIRBANKS – For those who want to live vicariously through others, the Banff Mountain Film Festival World Tour will make a stop in Fairbanks on Feb. 7 at the Davis Concert Hall on the UAF...
UAF Winter gear swap set for Saturday
FAIRBANKS – UAF Outdoor Adventures and the Alaska Alpine Club are hosting their annual winter gear swap in the UAF Wood Center Ballroom from 1-3 p.m. on Saturday. Whether you’re looki...
White Mountains 100 is a go after BLM approves permit
FAIRBANKS — The Bureau of Land Management will allow a 100-mile human-powered race in the White Mountains National Recreation Area in March but with a few stipulations, the biggest of which is t...
Breakaway snares allow moose to escape, but still kill wolves
FAIRBANKS – All it took was one or two wrestling matches with moose caught in wolf snares he set to convince Fairbanks trapper Jim Masek there had to be a way to make a snare strong enough to ho...
Anchorage man sentenced for illegal Denali hunt
ANCHORAGE , Alaska – A 56-year-old Anchorage man convicted of illegally hunting bull moose in Denali National Park has been sentenced to a year of probation. David Talmadge Harger also was ...
Close call has Fairbanks pilot counting his blessings
FAIRBANKS – When he felt a momentary shudder in the engine of his Cessna 170, Rick Schikora didn’t give it much thought. All the plane’s gauges checked out, and the plane was flying fine. ...
More birds caught in traps reported on Kenai Peninsula
KENAI , Alaska – Two additional birds of prey have been caught in traps over the past week, bringing the total numbers of birds to be accidentally caught this season to three. “There ...
Registration open for women's outdoors workshops in Mat-Su
FAIRBANKS – The Alaska Department of Fish and Game’s annual Becoming an Outdoors Woman winter workshop will be hosted in the Matanuska Valley this year March 12-14, and the state is accept...
Alaska Trappers to host wolf-trapping school in Fairbanks
FAIRBANKS – The Alaska Trappers Association’s wolf trapping school will be hosted in Fairbanks this year on Feb. 20-21 at Lost Lake Boy Scout Camp at 57 Mile Richardson Highway. The school...
Free avalanche seminar offered
FAIRBANKS – The UAF Outdoor Adventures program is sponsoring a free avalanche seminar Feb. 13 on campus. The seminar, taught by the Anchorage-based Alaska Avalanche School, will feature ...