Utilizing the chitin in crab shells could add more than $10 million in first wholesale value. In fact, the ASMI report shows ...

Commentary author Hunter H. McIntosh writes that despite its immense ecological and economic value, the Tongass remains under ...

Over the last ten years there has been a steady decline in hatchery-reared salmon making their mark on Alaska’s economy.

Tribal President Corina Ewan, who is Ahtna Athabascan, pointed to the sacred nature of the burial ... according to a biologist with the Alaska Department of Fish and Game. Last year Mark ...

• Jeff Lund is a freelance writer based in Ketchikan. His book, “A Miserable Paradise: Life in Southeast Alaska,” is ...

Fishing is enormously important in Alaska's economic and political life. It is related to many issues that Harriman's expedition encountered and debated, and many that the Retraced expedition has ...

I had gone to the nature center to photograph a pair ... It was unmistakably a bat, the first I had seen in Alaska. Alaska Department of Fish and Game wildlife biologist Karen Blejwas confirmed ...

they fish, they hunt, they feast, they dance." Seal hunting in Glacier Bay in 1899. Click image for a larger view. In Alaska today, subsistence continues to be an important practice. Local foods ...