Alaska State Troopers, after an unnecessary search operation for two overdue hunters on Sunday are reminding hunters to “provide friends and family with a trip plan and keep them informed of their hunting plans.” AST received notification of two overdue Emmonak hunters that had left Emmonak on one snow machine at 5 pm on […]
KODIAK, Alaska – A Coast Guard Air Station Kodiak MH-60 Jayhawk helicopter crew rescued two stranded hunters on the Punuk Islands, east of St. Lawrence Island, 664 miles Northwest of Kodiak, Alaska, Thursday. After the aircrew’s roughly 700-mile transit, the men were taken to Nome for further care. One of the men was reported to […]
(STATEWIDE) — Thanks to hunters this fall, expanded efforts by the Alaska Department of Fish and Game to learn more about Mycoplasma ovipneumoniae, or “M.ovi,” received a welcome boost. Providing specimens from the field, hunters from around the state helped the department collect laboratory samples from more than 330 Dall sheep, 110 mountain goats, 100 caribou, […]
The magnificent creature was fooled by vocal plumbing — similar to its own but much smaller — imitating the groan of a receptive female. The bull moose grunted twice, then strode through spruce trees at the far side of a river. Brushing branches away with its antlers, it emerged, expecting to see a cow moose. […]