Tim Mowry
Outdoors Editor
Call Tim at 907-459-7587.
Outdoors editor Tim Mowry, 44, has been at the News-Miner since November 1989. He hired on as a sportswriter and moved over to the outdoors beat in 1995. Raised on a dairy farm in Vermont and western New York, he drove to Alaska in May 1986 to take a job as a sportswriter at the Frontiersman newspaper in the Mat-Su Valley shortly after graduating from Ohio University with a bachelor's degree in journalism. A retired dog musher, Mowry completed the Yukon Quest (seven times) and Iditarod (twice) sled dog races before hanging up his harnesses. He now focuses his spare energies on cross-country skiing, gardening, running, hunting, fishing and camping with his family. He lives in Two Rivers with his wife, Kristan, their son, Logan, three pet Labradors and a few retired sled dogs.
Recent Stories
- Kings should be hitting Chena and Salcha rivers any day
- Thursday, July 2, 2009
- FAIRBANKS — The first king salmon of the season were caught by subsistence fishermen in Nenana on Tuesday, which means some kings should be poking their noses into Chena and Salcha soon.
- Fairbanks kayaker completes Yukon River Quest
- Thursday, July 2, 2009
- FAIRBANKS — At first, Rick Hoegberg thought he was looking at an ancient carving of a woolly mammoth in a rock wall along the Yukon River.
- Gulkana River teaches novice rafter a rapid lesson
- Thursday, July 2, 2009
- FAIRBANKS — The roar of the water around me was like a freight train as I stood in my raft, watching water pour into it. It was just a matter of time, I was sure, before the raft flipped and I was tossed into the Gulkana River.
- Bus mechanics, others authorize Denali strike
- Tuesday, June 30, 2009
- FAIRBANKS — With the tourist season at its peak, bus mechanics, radio technicians and warehousemen working in Denali National Park and Preserve are threatening to go on strike today after failing to reach a deal on a new contract following six months of negotiations.
- Fairbanks man an activist for Chitina dip-netters
- Monday, June 29, 2009
- FAIRBANKS — The fact that Byron Haley is president-for-life of the Chitina Dipnetters Association is somewhat ironic, considering the 82-year-old Haley has only been to Chitina a few times during his 63 years in Alaska.
- Bird Observatory advises woodcutters to hold off for a month
- Sunday, June 28, 2009
- FAIRBANKS — With the peak of the bird nesting season upon us, you might want to reconsider cutting down a bunch of birch trees to burn for firewood next winter — at least for another month or so.
- Swim competition in Chena Lake offers thrills and chills
- Sunday, June 28, 2009
- FAIRBANKS — Wetsuit or petroleum jelly? That was the question for competitors in the inaugural Chena Splash on Saturday at Chena Lake Recreation Area.
- State pulls plug on king salmon fishing in Gulkana River
- Thursday, June 25, 2009
- FAIRBANKS — Starting Monday, king salmon will be off limits in the Gulkana River.
- Takotna to get $21 million airport
- Wednesday, June 24, 2009
- FAIRBANKS — The village of Takotna is getting a new $21 million airport, which translates to almost $500,000 per person in the small Bush village about 300 miles west of Fairbanks.
- Prehistoric arrow point found in Denali
- Sunday, June 21, 2009
- FAIRBANKS — Part of a prehistoric Athabascan arrow found by a 4-year-old boy playing on a gravel bar along the Teklanika River in Denali National Park and Preserve last month is a rare find that lends credence to the theory that hunters used the area for thousands of years.
Recent Photos
- Thursday, July 2, 2009
- With 14 people in the flotilla, combat camping was a necessity during a gloat trip down the upper Gulkana River.
- Thursday, July 2, 2009
- Logan Ricketts tries his luck fishing while Frank Olive catches a nap on his inflatable kayak.
- Wednesday, June 17, 2009
- Fairbanks kayaker Rick Hoegberg sits in the 18-foot wooden kayak he built last winter and that he will use in the 460-mile Yukon River Quest from Whitehorse to Dawson, Yukon Territory. The race begins on Wednesday in Whitehorse.
- Thursday, May 28, 2009
- Jim Brashear of Fairbanks stands on top of a rock while dip netting in the Copper River at Chitina in the summer of 2007.
- Thursday, May 14, 2009
- News-Miner outdoors editor Tim Mowry and son Logan bike through snowfall in Denali National Park and Preserve on Sunday near Mile 35 of the 92-mile park road.
