Years ago, I worked for a hunting guide on a river in the middle of Alaska. One of my duties was to drive a motorized canoe full of moose meat upstream to a gravel bar where he could fly it out. When I returned home from that trip, something funny happened: the noises from my […]
On Thursday morning, the crash of a Southeast Aviation De Haviland Beaver on floats outside of Ketchikan in the Misty Fjords area took the lives of five passengers and the pilot according to reports. The aircraft with five guests of Holland America Line cruise ship Nieuw Amsterdam departed Misty Fjords and were returning to Ketchikan […]
“To carry out such a horrific onslaught on native wildlife in the midst of a mass extinction event and a climate crisis, without any real knowledge of the impact, is utterly outrageous.” Days after federal data revealed taxpayers funded the killing of 1.2 million native animal species in 2019, the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s […]
Update: All but one person was deceased on scene of Friday’s crash, the initial survivor succumbed to injuries during transport to the local hospital. Troopers identified Rep. Gary Knopp, age 67, of Kenai, as the sole occupant of one plane. The six decedents from the other aircraft are identified as Pilot Gregory Bell, age 57 […]