Joe Viechnicki, KFSK, Author at KFSK

Central Southeast moose hunting season starts Friday

Hunters are heading to moose camp on the mainland and islands around Petersburg, Wrangell and Kake. A month-long season in central Southeast Alaska starts up Friday, September 15.

PHS cross country third, fifth in Wrangell

Petersburg High School girls cross country came in third behind the two Juneau high schools this weekend at a meet in Wrangell. The Petersburg boys team was fifth.
In the girls race, Juneau-Douglas took the top spot with three of the top four runners across the finish line. Thunder Mountain beat out Petersburg for second place by just two points.

Searchers recover body of local man south of Petersburg

Searchers late Monday night recovered the body of a 24-year-old Petersburg man missing since earlier that day at a hunting and fishing lodge about 10 miles south of town.

State denies ballot initiative on salmon habitat

Alaska’s Lieutenant Governor Byron Mallot has denied a proposed ballot initiative designed to offer greater protections for salmon habitat from mining or other development.

Photographer, naturalist, writer reflects on emotions of animals

One of the keynote speakers at Petersburg’s Rainforest Festival this year was Juneau photographer, writer and naturalist Bob Armstrong. The former Alaska Department of Fish and Game fishery biologist and research supervisor has authored numerous books and articles on the animals, plants and insects of Alaska. He’s been photographing and writing about the natural world since 1960. Lately he has used GoPro and game trail cameras to capture video of Alaska’s animals, birds and fish. Some of the behavior he’s recorded has him wondering about the emotional lives of animals.