Wildlife

Natural factors are credited with growing the moose population in the Yukon-Charley Rivers National Preserve.

Bear activity around Sitka has picked up recently, and wildlife managers want to remind people to be safe around their homes and on their hikes.

A Fairbanks man was airlifted to an Anchorage hospital from Haines on Monday afternoon after being mauled by a bear nine miles west of town.

“Our lives are minimized, marginalized and in many ways consciously, consciously, determined to be unimportant, to the point where we become faceless,” said Lt. Gov. Byron Mallott.

White-nose bat syndrome keeps bats from hibernating properly. It’s a fungus that irritates them and wakes them up too early. And since it’s cold out the bats can’t find insects they need to survive so they starve.

For the third time in six years, Sitka Sound Sac Roe Herring Fishery has closed far short of the target harvest level.