Wildlife

Bogoslof Island is now a natural laboratory where researchers can see how the island and its ecosystem respond to volcanic activity.

A volcano in the eastern Aleutians has been erupting for the past week. Bogoslof volcano is an uninhabited island 60 miles northwest of Unalaska. It’s part of the Alaska Maritime Wildlife Refuge, which is based hundreds of miles away in Homer.

Bad weather meant poor visibility which meant it was hard to spot the birds, but that didn’t stop the Haines and Skagway birders from recording an average count.

Subsistence hunters seeking deer on Southeast Alaska’s Prince of Wales Island will have an extra month to hunt. But the island’s wolf season was shortened.

Gov. Bill Walker proposed cutting about 45 positions and $3.5 million from the Alaska Department of Fish and Game’s 2018 budget last week, significantly smaller than the $11.5 million in cuts over the last two years.

Biologists assumed that settlers brought Arctic ground squirrels to Gulf of Alaska Islands around the turn of the 20th century. A new research study, however, has turned this notion on its head.