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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 five retired sled dogs.

Recent Stories

Public Safety Report - May 13: Tuesday, May 13, 2008; The Public Safety Report is compiled from criminal complaints filed in state and federal courts, as well as some police blotter information, trooper dispatches, fire department reports and interviews with public safety officials. Individuals named as arrested and/or charged with crimes in this report are presumed innocent until proved guilty in a court of law.
Biologist removes snare from Denali wolf: Saturday, May 10, 2008; The National Park Service didn’t spend almost $4,000 to catch a wolf and remove a cable snare around its neck last week for the sake of tourists who might be offended by seeing the gaping wound on the animal’s neck.
It was the wolf that officials at Denali National Park and Preserve say they were thinking about.
Iditarod musher Jeff King pleads not guilty to killing moose inside Denali Park: Friday, May 9, 2008; Iditarod champion Jeff King pleaded not guilty Friday to charges of illegally killing a moose in Denali National Park and Preserve and wants a jury to decide the case.
Wetter-than-usual April keeps Interior fire activity low: Friday, May 9, 2008; A wet April has kept fire activity at a minimum so far in the Interior.
Still only one winner in Nenana Ice Classic: Thursday, May 8, 2008; It’s taking almost as long to figure out who won the Nenana Ice Classic as it did for the Tanana River ice to go out.
Copper River run expected to be smaller this year: Thursday, May 8, 2008; The dip netting season for red and king salmon on the Copper River at Chitina is tentatively scheduled to open June 4, with emphasis on the word "tentative."
List is long, summer is short: Thursday, May 8, 2008; The problem with making an outdoors-oriented list of summer things-to-do in Alaska, especially Fairbanks, is that summer is too short.
Karl Sanford first leader in this year's halibut derby: Thursday, May 8, 2008; Karl Sanford has no illusion that he will win the Homer Jackpot Halibut Derby, but at least he can say he was the first fisherman to sit atop this year's leader board.
Winners are few so far in Ice Classic: Thursday, May 8, 2008; Officials on Wednesday were still scrambling to figure out how many winning tickets will split a $303,895 jackpot in this year’s Nenana Ice Classic after the wooden tripod on the Tanana River moved downstream and stopped the clock just before midnight Tuesday.
Rex Trail closes to large off-road vehicles: Wednesday, May 7, 2008; The Rex Trail, a popular moose hunting area south of Fairbanks, will be closed to large off-road vehicles this fall.

Recent Photos

: Thursday, May 8, 2008; Fairbanks dip-netter Jim Brashear holds a pair of Copper River red salmon after a successful dip netting trip to Chitina last summer.
: Tuesday, April 15, 2008; The first Canada geese of the season wander about Creamer’s Field Monday morning, April 14, 2008.
: Wednesday, March 19, 2008; North Pole recreational musher Miriam Cooper preps her sled for a run on the Chena Flood Control Project earlier this month. Cooper is founder and president of the Alaksa Recreational Dog Mushers Association.
: Wednesday, March 19, 2008; Recreational musher Zak Richter of Fairbanks lounges in front of his Arctic Oven tent in the Wickersham Dome trailhead parking lot Sunday with his dogs to keep him company. Richter used the parking lot as a base camp for the weekend to mush his dogs into the White Mountains National Recreation Area.