2+ hour, 41+ min ago  (193+ words) The killing of bear cubs in their dens is one of the cruelest and most troubling wildlife practices imaginable. Scientific research shows that maternal care in mammals is driven by complex hormonal, neurological and behavioral processes that create powerful bonds…...

3+ day, 10+ hour ago  (1430+ words) WILLOW — Corey Ercolani pulled a northern pike from a gillnet and slit its belly with a knife. Inside its guts lay fresh evidence of a growing biological crime: a dead juvenile salmon. A coho, or silver salmon, to be exact....

1+ week, 4+ day ago  (1305+ words) As the tiny creature ricocheted around the netting, Bella Eskelin, 13, reached her hand inside the trap and delicately closed her fingers. For a moment, she and the hummingbird became still. She felt its heart beat, like a tiny motor, in…...

1+ week, 4+ day ago  (466+ words) “Homesick for a World Unknown: The Life of George B. Schaller” By Miriam Horn; Penguin Press, 2026; $40; 626 pages. At UAF Schaller worked as a field assistant to Dave Klein (one of Alaska’s most influential biologists, who died in 2020), climbed mountains (including…...

3+ week, 6+ day ago  (906+ words) I walked around outside our Two Rivers home early one morning, as I sometimes do. It was mid-May and we — that’s my wife, Julie, and me — were about ready to head to work. The birds had recently returned. While waiting…...

1+ mon, 6+ day ago  (446+ words) On March 27, cutting firewood to heat my home became illegal. Not because of anything my husband, Sean, or I did, but because the state of Alaska claimed title to 1.4 million acres surrounding our village overnight, and our federal subsistence access…...

1+ mon, 1+ week ago  (115+ words) Anchorage Daily News Letter: Ocean metrics are sinking in a sea of federal firings I just became aware through the news — thank God for the free press — that the Trump administration fired all the members of the independent…...

1+ mon, 1+ week ago  (322+ words) Four days into my 18th season guiding in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge, spokespeople from the U.S. Bureau of Land Management in Washington, D.C., will announce which companies won bids to explore and, potentially, drill there. For decades, the refuge has faced pressure…...

2+ mon, 4+ day ago  (119+ words) Anchorage Daily News Thousands of shorebirds, songbirds and other migrating species are moving into their breeding grounds in the northern latitudes. The spring bird migration is in full swing in Southcentral Alaska. Cordova hosted its shorebird festival the first weekend…...

2+ mon, 6+ day ago  (186+ words) Anchorage Daily News Letter: The road to wildlife protection is still blocked The ADN story “Anchorage bans feeding of wild animals, with $250 fine for first offense” explains wildlife have plenty to forage on, thus don’t need to be…...