After a lengthy investigation, and guilty pleas, three Wainwright men were each sentenced in Barrow for the taking of muskox during a closed season on Wednesday, Megan Peters revealed on the trooper dispatch. It was in March of 2016 that Wildlife Troopers opened an investigation upon finding three female Musk Ox dead near the Nuka […]
(DEADHORSE) — A 10-year-old female grizzly was killed in Deadhorse Thursday evening and her two cubs of the year captured after their attraction to human-provided foods led them to break into kitchens and food-storage areas. Long monitored as a research animal by the Alaska Department of Fish and Game, the female known as “Bear 147” […]
A straggling caribou was decapitated at the Deadhorse airport on Friday by an aircraft co-operated by ConocoPhillips and British Petroleum, when it came in for a landing on Friday. According to the Alaska Dispatch News, who first reported on the incident in Alaska, as the aircraft was coming in for a landing at the remote […]
[wds id=”9″]ATIGUN RIVER — Goodbye, red squirrels. On our summer-long hike along the path of the Trans-Alaska Pipeline, this morning my dog Cora and I left the last tangle of boreal forest along America’s highway system. We walked away from a campsite of white spruce and balsam poplar that shielded us during a rain and […]