Wildlife

At its worst, a bad taxidermy job is gaudy and unsettling. At its finest, taxidermy turns animals into art, preserved for a lifetime or more.

Greg Lutton was moose hunting on Kupreanof Island this week and said he saw the dead whale on his way out of Portage Bay.

During Sen. Lisa Murkowski’s speech at the AFN Convention on Friday, protesters marched dressed as a salmon, a caribou and a walrus. They were calling out Murkowski for her support of Arctic oil drilling.

Even though Judge Thomas Nave finds Kathleen Turley liable, he states John Forrest failed to prove his damages during the small claims case.

“When you read it, please keep in mind the fact that it will represent what the law requires. It will not represent any notions of approval or disapproval on my part of trapping,” said Judge Thomas Nave.

A petition asking for emergency Endangered Species Act listing for Prince of Wales Island wolves was essentially denied by the U.S. Department of the Interior office in Anchorage.