Women skating for the roller derby teams Rage City Rollergirls, Boom Down Derby Dames, Denali Destroyer Dolls and Far North Derby rolled around the track in the Kenai Multipurpose Recreation Facility on Saturday.
Thu, 10/04/2012 - 5:39pm
DECEPTION PASS, Wash. - A respectable number of silver salmon are expected to return to the Skagit River this month and in early October, and many of them get there by way of Deception Pass.
Thu, 09/27/2012 - 4:48pm
It always happens on a Friday afternoon around 4:25. Computer is shutting down, projects not finished are piled to the side, and the weekend is calling.
Thu, 09/27/2012 - 4:49pmAuthor's note: The following story first appeared in the April 1997 issue of Alaska magazine. It's been edited for brevity, but the best stuff is here. Alaska's outer coast can be a violent place. Winter gales pound forbidding cliffs.
Thu, 09/20/2012 - 4:24pm
About this time last year, I wrote a story about how subalpine willows in the Kenai Mountains were being defoliated by an outbreak of both native and exotic species of Geometrid moths.
Thu, 09/20/2012 - 4:24pm
Interagency biologists working on northern pike control last week in Captain Cook State Recreation Area noticed fragments of a bright green, whorled-leaf aquatic plant washed up on the shore near a boat launch.
Thu, 09/13/2012 - 3:58pmOn Monday of this week, while fishing for silver salmon on the lower Kenai River, I boated a silver salmon. This fish was on the small side, about seven pounds, not one of the 10-pound-plus silvers that usually arrive this time of year.
Thu, 09/13/2012 - 3:57pm
What do you get when you put 10 ecologists and 10 musicians in one room? No, it is not another bad joke from your Uncle Jerry.
Thu, 09/06/2012 - 4:30pmOn the lower Kenai River, where Dillon Kimple and I fished for silver salmon Tuesday morning, only two other boats were within shouting distance, and nobody was shouting. For two hours, no one caught anything but an occasional hapless pink salmon.
Thu, 09/06/2012 - 4:29pm
