What Is a Body For? – Longreads

longreads.com

One desire felt like it would make me more of who I already was, and the other would unmake me entirely.

The messy reality of feeding Alaska – High Country News

www.hcn.org

After Trump threatened Canada, a writer discovers the uncertainty of the state’s food supply chain.

America Is the World’s Most Abundant Source of Wild Salmon — Why Are We Still Eating Farmed?

www.foodandwine.com

Wild salmon is abundant in Alaska and coveted by chefs — but most Americans eat the cheaper, milder farmed kind. Journalist Kim Cross set out to learn why — and how to cook the real thing right.

Life Lessons From a Coastal Wolf Pack

High Country News

In Alaska, a biologist and her family learn how quickly these iconic predators can change the menu — and bend the rules.

The Enduring Mystery of a Plane That Vanished in the Icy Canadian Wilderness With 44 People on Board

Smithsonian Magazine

Seventy-five years ago, a Douglas C-54D Skymaster disappeared en route from Alaska to Montana. No trace of its crew and passengers, including a pregnant mother and her young son, has ever been found

In Remote Alaska, Meal Planning Is Everything

Eater

In March 2020, when pandemic stay-at-home orders had just started and everyone was figuring out how to get groceries and purchase in bulk for the next several weeks, I already had a chest freezer full of food and a pantry stocked with months’ worth of meals at my home in Fairbanks, Alaska.

Fog, a Friend, and Fixes–Randall

Harmon and Randall's Voyage…

It is commonly held that fortune favors the prepared. Often unremarked is that fortune has a mischievous twin with whom she shares her secrets. Thus it is that a man can set out from Homer, confident in his months of boat work, only to be tripped up just beyond the breakwater. 

I became a man in the Alaskan wilderness – just not in the way you might think

the Guardian

Silence washed over me as the float plane buzzed away, leaving us alone. I turned around and saw fresh grizzly and moose tracks the size of dinner plates imprinted in the mud. Panic tiptoed in, but it didn’t reign.

Out in the Great Alone

Grantland

In the summer of 1977, a fire swept across the wilderness of interior Alaska, west of Mount McKinley. Tundra burned to rock; 345,000 acres of forest — more than 530 square miles — disappeared in flames.

The teenage whaler’s tale

High Country News

Internet death threats hound a young Alaskan after a successful hunt.

Life Aboard a Renovated World War II Tugboat

Smithsonian Magazine

The morning of our departure I woke in the dark, Rachel and the baby breathing softly beside me. An oval of light worked its way over the knotty pine of the Adak’s stateroom, cast by the sodium floodlights of a herring seiner passing in the channel.

Salmon are vanishing from the Yukon River — and so is a way of life

Grist

Serena Fitka sat in the cabin of a flat-bottomed aluminum boat as it sped down the Yukon River in western Alaska, recalling how the river once ran thick with salmon. Each summer, in the Yup’ik village of St. Mary’s where Fitka grew up, she and her family fished for days on end.

Why one man has spent much of life trying to climb a near-impossible summit

NPR

Well known by rock climbers, Devil's Thumb stands about 9,000 feet high over the Gulf of Alaska. One man has spent much of his life trying to reach its summit.

The Mystery of Fish Deaths in a Foul Chartreuse Sea

WIRED

This story originally appeared on Hakai and is part of the Climate Desk collaboration. Dead fish were everywhere, speckling the beach near town and extending onto the surrounding coastline.

When the River Took John Squires

For years, three old friends from California had been making an annual pilgrimage to fish Alaska’s wild and pristine waterways. But in 2018, only two came home.