On Dec. 22 I received a message from a local Fairbanks trapper whom I’ve known for years. It included a photo of an enormous black wolf he and his trapping partner had just caught, as well as the ...

Proposals to change how the state manages deer and wolf harvests on Prince of Wales Island will be considered when the Alaska Board of Game meets in Wrangell, Jan. 23-27.

The Alaska Supreme Court has ruled in favor of the city of Valdez in a lawsuit that challenged the bounds of municipal authority within the state. In a unanimous decision issued Friday, the court ...

Feb. 22—Fur Rendezvous has been a staple of Anchorage winter life for nearly 90 years. Founded in 1935, the festival started as a celebration that coincided with miners and trappers coming to town to ...

On Tuesday, the Anchorage Assembly voted in favor of a policy change that could affect animal trapping. After recent reports of dogs dying from getting caught in traps, the goal of the new ordinance ...

FAIRBANKS — The Alaska Trappers Association is holding its annual general trapping school on Oct. 16-17 at Lost Lake Scout Camp at 306 Mile Richardson Highway. The two-day workshop teaches wannabe ...

The Alaska Department of Fish and Game’s wildlife management depends on extensive research of a large number of populations across a vast expanse of land. Much of the funding available for that ...

PALMER — A new interactive online map is designed to help trail users avoid encounters between their dogs and traplines set near popular trails around Alaska. The map was developed by the Alaska ...

The Alaska Board of Game has rejected two efforts to toughen state trapping laws and overturned another law opposed by trappers. During a 10-day statewide meeting in Fairbanks that ended Saturday, the ...

Snow-covered hills in the Porcupine River Tundra in the Yukon Territories, Canada. In July 1997, a hunter contacted troopers in Fairbanks, Alaska, and reported finding a human skull along the ...

His family remembers Gary Frank Sotherden as a free spirit who spent time in Canada and worked on the Alaska oil pipeline. When he set out on the trip of a lifetime to go trapping in the Alaskan ...