A Beautiful Menace: Invasive Orange Hawkweed Spreads Through Southeast Alaska
A visually striking but ecologically devastating plant is spreading through Southeast Alaska: the orange hawkweed.
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by Olivia Schmidt | Jul 29, 2024 | Featured News, Local News, Syndicated | 0
A visually striking but ecologically devastating plant is spreading through Southeast Alaska: the orange hawkweed.
Read Moreby Shelby Herbert | Jul 18, 2024 | Featured News, Local News, Syndicated | 0
A Forest Service entomologist says the Tongass is emerging from the latest insect outbreaks with “a bad haircut,” but it’s all part of a natural process.
Read Moreby Shelby Herbert | May 9, 2024 | Featured News, Local News, Syndicated | 0
Gold mines near the British Columbia border are controversial in Alaska because of the potential for negative impacts to the environment and fisheries downstream. A nonprofit group called the Environmental Investigation Agency (EIA) released a report in January that found that these gold mines operate somewhat like a Ponzi scheme.
Read Moreby Shelby Herbert | Jul 13, 2023 | Featured News, Local News, Syndicated | 0
The Alaska Division of Air Quality issued its first smoke alert of the year for Southeast Alaska at 9 a.m on July 13th. The region will be impacted by smoke from wildfires raging just over the Canadian border. As of Friday, July 7th, traces of smoke became visible across Alaska. Now, the winds have shifted and the fires have gotten worse.
Read Moreby Shelby Herbert | Jun 21, 2023 | Featured News, Local News, Syndicated | 0
Southeast trollers can fish for king salmon this summer after all. A federal appeals court ruled that the Southeast Alaska king or chinook troll fishery can open on time this summer: July 1st.
Read Moreby Shelby Herbert | Mar 16, 2023 | Featured News, Local News, Syndicated | 0
When the number or size of wildfires exceeds a local fire agency’s ability to fight them, they can call in militia support. That support can include help from employees like Toby Bakos — who aren’t full-time firefighters, but who are trained to fight wildfires when needed.
Read Moreby Shelby Herbert | Mar 3, 2023 | Local News, News, Syndicated | 0
The Alaska House of Representatives passed a resolution to protect Southeast Alaska’s troll fishery on Wednesday. House Joint Resolution 5 calls for state and federal agencies to defend Alaska’s troll fisheries from a lawsuit that seeks to hold them accountable for the decline in killer whales in the Puget Sound area.
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