Though the wildfire season really hasn’t started in the Rockies, Sierra Nevada, or Cascade ranges, its been well under way in Alaska, where national park fire managers are reporting unusual fire behavior.

“Statewide, fire managers were observing fire activity in May that they usually see in June and early July,” says Morgan Warthin, the National Park Service’s regional fire communication and ed

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In moves designed to counter Alaska’s current approach to wildlife management, National Park Service officials in that state are instituting hunting and trapping bans to protect wolves and bears in their parks and preserves.

Alaska’s approach to wildlife management has been described by critics as designed to reduce predator populations so there will be more game animals, such as caribou and mo

Alaska wildlife officials, in a move certain to flare jurisdictional issues between the state and federal governments if OKed, are proposing that they be allowed to kill predators in national parks and preserves without prior approval from the National Park Service.

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A solitary journey into the vast Gates of the Arctic wilderness provided just the right surroundings for Bill Sherwonit to reflect on his life journey and his particular way of thinking about wilderness, wildness, and himself.

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Thanks to translocations that began 80 years ago, herds of prehistoric-looking muskoxen once again roam Alaska’s tundra. Could these shaggy Ice Age survivors be emergent stars of the watchable wildlife world?

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