Photo: A brood of ruddy ducks in Yukon Flats National Wildlife Refuge in summer 2018. Photo by Michelle Lake, USFWS. Every spring, millions of ducks touch down on Yukon Flats National Wildlife Refuge, a spread of muskeg and dark water the size of Maryland. These days, more ruddy ducks seem to be among them. Recent […]
Due to the recent bear attacks in the Municipality of Anchorage and the State of Alaska, there has been an increase in 9-1-1 calls about bears to Dispatch. In partnership with the Alaska Department of Fish and Game (ADFG), we have a friendly reminder about when to make wild animal reports. Most wildlife sightings, […]
Visitors to national parks are half as likely to see wolves in their natural habitat when wolf hunting is permitted just outside park boundaries. That’s the main finding of a paper co-authored by the University of Washington appearing April 28 in the journal PLOS ONE. Its authors examined wolf harvest and sightings data from two […]