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Updated: Sep. 17, 2020 at 4:55 PM AKDT
|By Patrick Enslow
This week's fishing report features silver salmon fishing on the lower Kenai River with Luke Graham of 59 Degrees North Outfitters.
Updated: Aug. 16, 2020 at 10:26 PM AKDT
|By Matt Leseman
High demand during the Summer has made certain bikes and parts hard to find.
Updated: May. 28, 2020 at 2:38 PM AKDT
|By Cheyenne Mathews
The Denali National Park and Preserve will be opening up for the summer season, but that reopen will look different than in past years.
Updated: Feb. 20, 2020 at 6:25 PM AKST
|By Grant Robinson
February isn't what most people consider prime time for bird watching in Alaska, but for Anchorage entertainer and bird enthusiast Mr. Whitekeys, some planning and patience payoff with an array of wildlife viewing opportunities.
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Updated: Feb. 6, 2020 at 3:16 PM AKST
|By Grant Robinson
The event begins at 9 a.m. on Saturday at Jewel Lake in Anchorage and runs til 4 p.m. Alaska residents 18 years and older will need a valid fishing license, which can be purchased at the event.
Updated: Jan. 30, 2020 at 11:39 AM AKST
|By Grant Robinson
In recent years ADF&G has focused suppression efforts on Alexander Creek, and the incentive program is geared at helping biologists know about the status of pike in Alexander Lake.
Updated: Jan. 23, 2020 at 2:09 PM AKST
|By Grant Robinson
Changing sea ice conditions are forcing polar bears to adapt, and new research shows that a growing percentage of polar bears are coming to land and becoming dependent on human provisions for food, while those that stay on the dwindling sea ice to continue natural polar bear behavior may be floating on an ecological trap.
Updated: Jan. 16, 2020 at 5:53 PM AKST
|By Grant Robinson
The hatchery's method for the Hidden Lake fish is to release unfed fry.
Updated: Jan. 9, 2020 at 5:27 PM AKST
|By Grant Robinson
The tournament is a two-person team ice fishing tournament held on Big Lake every other Saturday through March 8.
Updated: Jan. 2, 2020 at 3:54 PM AKST
|By Grant Robinson
For centuries trapping has been a part of Alaskan subsistence life, and although technology has improved, the heart of trapping continues to be passed on to new generations.
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Updated: Dec. 26, 2019 at 4:11 PM AKST
|By Grant Robinson
Unlike traditional ice fishing where an angler drops a line down a hole around 10 inches wide, spearing for pike involves cutting an opening about two feet wide so that the sportsman can both see into the lake and drop the spear on a fish.
Updated: Dec. 19, 2019 at 5:46 PM AKST
|By Grant Robinson
After a late start to winter in Southcentral Alaska, many lakes are now frozen thick enough to enable safe ice fishing.
Updated: Dec. 5, 2019 at 5:54 PM AKST
|By Grant Robinson
A decade of mild winters in Southeast Alaska has been a boon for the Sitka black-tailed deer.
Updated: Nov. 21, 2019 at 6:16 PM AKST
|By Grant Robinson
An Anchorage taxidermist is branching into 3D printing.
Updated: Nov. 14, 2019 at 5:02 PM AKST
|By Grant Robinson
Scientists with NOAA say they have observed belugas swimming up to ten miles up the Kenai River.
Updated: Nov. 7, 2019 at 6:41 PM AKST
|By Grant Robinson
The weather in Alaska has been unusual this year and with snowfall later than average to arrive, some animals are giving Alaskans unusual sightings.
Updated: Oct. 31, 2019 at 4:15 PM AKDT
|By Grant Robinson
It's task that serves two important purposes - ensuring that the animal is a legal harvest, and providing valuable information for wildlife management.
Updated: Oct. 17, 2019 at 7:08 PM AKDT
|By Taylor Clark
Chugach Powder Guides has been the sole operator for snow cat and heliskiing in the area for 20 years. Now there's potential for new competition.
Updated: Oct. 17, 2019 at 5:07 PM AKDT
|By Grant Robinson
The Kenai River and its runs of salmon keep the river crowded through the summer, but come Fall it's a different scene that offers anglers a chance a trophy trout.
Updated: Oct. 3, 2019 at 6:07 PM AKDT
|By Grant Robinson
Classrooms participating "Salmon in the Classroom" visited the hatchery and students were able to not only learn about the life cycle of salmon, but also collect eggs and milt to begin fertilization.
Updated: Sep. 26, 2019 at 5:49 PM AKDT
|By Grant Robinson
The center's captive moose help researchers develop better techniques and methods that managers can then apply to managing wild populations.
Updated: Sep. 12, 2019 at 3:27 PM AKDT
|By Grant Robinson
Mule deer, which are not native to Interior Alaska, are being seen more frequently in recent years and the Department of Fish & Game is asking hunters and other in the public to help the department learn more about the animals.
Updated: Aug. 19, 2019 at 1:19 PM AKDT
|By Patrick Enslow
Everybody in Alaska has their favorite fishing holes, and for folks in Nome that’s Council. On this week’s Outdoor Alaska, Patrick Enslow checks out the Silver Salmon fishing in Western Alaska.
Updated: Aug. 8, 2019 at 5:57 PM AKDT
|By Grant Robinson
The University of Washington has been documenting data on everything ranging from environmental conditions to daily counts of fish in numerous streams in the Bristol Bay watershed.
Updated: Nov. 24, 2018 at 7:17 PM AKST
|By Kalinda Kindle
Despite warmer temperatures impacting local ski slopes, Saturday was opening day at Hilltop Ski Area.
Updated: Nov. 17, 2018 at 3:58 PM AKST
|By Kalinda Kindle
On Saturday, Anchorage families gathered to celebrate the official opening of Chugach Foothills Park and Playground.
Updated: Aug. 25, 2018 at 11:07 PM AKDT
|By Kalinda Kindle
On Saturday, families and kids attended a class on how to be junior naturalists at the Eagle River Nature Center.
Updated: Jul. 23, 2018 at 8:06 PM AKDT
|By Kalinda Kindle
A new, 4.5 miles-long single track trail is in the works for mountain bikers on the hillside.
Updated: Jul. 31, 2017 at 5:50 PM AKDT
|By Sidney Sullivan
The Municipality of Anchorage funds over 225 parks and recreation facilities, in Anchorage. Use this interactive map to view Southcentral Alaska's parks and recreation facilities, far and wide.
Updated: Jun. 24, 2017 at 9:41 PM AKDT
|By Travis Khachatoorian
Since the deadly mauling at Bird Ridge, state officials said they’re seeing less traffic on the trails at Chugach State Park.
Updated: May. 26, 2017 at 9:32 PM AKDT
|By Travis Khachatoorian
Rain or shine, Alaskans are expected to be filling campgrounds this weekend.