The big holiday weekend will see many Alaskans camping, fishing, or both in various locations throughout the Mat-Su Valley and south central Alaska. Rainbow trout and arctic char sto…

When I talked with Mike Hudson of 3 Rivers Fly and Tackle this week, he immediately started talking up the lake fishing for rainbow trout, “People are catching trout in a bunch of di…

Times are slowly returning to a “new normal,” whatever that will look like. With the release of the Governor’s Health Mandate 18, travel is now open along the state’s highway systems…

Alaska Department of Fish and Game (ADF&G) biologist, Samantha Oslund, said plenty of people had been fishing Kepler-Bradley Lakes since the stocking of catchable rainbow trout e…

I was glad see Andy Couch’s fishing article in last week’s Frontiersman. His reappearance signifies a return toward a little normalcy in this otherwise unusual spring season. While h…

I am always amazed at how fast the outdoors can change in a short time. In a little over a week, we have gone from snow covered to bare ground, albeit, saturated ground! With another…

As the first few feet of open water has appeared at Kepler-Bradley Park along the Glenn Highway near Palmer, multiple anglers have already appeared to fish near the bridge at the wes…

Earth Day was this past Wednesday. I can remember back in the seventies when this day, for a lot of folks, amounted to a festival where things amounted to almost a worship activity o…

The Alaska Department of Fish and Game has been busy again this past week issuing news releases and social media articles. On April 9, the department reminded folks that bears are st…

As the COVID-19 virus comes to Alaska, all businesses have had to adjust their operations to provide for the safety of both customers and employees. A non-profit like Alaska WildBird…

The Alaska Department of Fish and Game, despite the “work from home” mandate most state employees are under, has been busy the past two weeks issuing several news releases and adviso…

Like most other folks, my wife and I have been sheltering in place with very little outdoor activity. I’ve done some puttering around in my “man cave,” with some organizing of my boo…

Most of us are continuing to shelter in place. About all my wife and I go out for is a daily or every other day trip to the local post office and a grocery/prescription shopping excu…

The official start of spring was March 19, and the season in Alaska can be unrecognizable to both new residents and visitors from outside. Budding blooms are replaced with on-again, …

This whole coronavirus pandemic thing is getting more serious for us Alaskans. I saw on the news the other day that Alaska has gone from a single confirmed case to nine, and things w…