Tag: National Park Service
Annual Fat Bear Week is bearing down upon us
The time is coming. The week all bear enthusiasts have been waiting for. It’s almost Fat Bear Week.
Fat Bear Week is returning Oct. 4...
NPS names Creachbaum as Alaska’s regional director
National Park Service veteran Sarah Creachbaum, director of Olympic National Park in Washington state, will step in as the new regional NPS director in Alaska effective Jan. 16.
Subsistence Resource Commission needs applicants
National Park Service officials are seeking applicants through March 31 to fill a vacant seat on the Wrangell-St. Elias National Park Subsistence Resource Commission.
The...
Three sentenced for illegal big game hunts
Three men have been sentenced to five years of probation for violation of the Lacey Act and other federal laws for conspiring to provide...
NVE receives NPS grant, builds traditional boats
Over the next few months, yellow and red cedar from Washington state will be meticulously carved and shaped in Cordova during the Ilanka Cultural...
NPS announces winter federal subsistence hunt
A winter federal subsistence hunt for a quota of seven bull moose is slated for a portion of Unit 11 of Wrangell-St. Elias National...
Apply now for Artist-In-Residence at Denali National Park
Applications are being accepted through Sept. 30 for the 2019 artist-in-residence program at Denali National Park.
The program is dedicated to exploring new ways for...
Letter: Killing bears in dens is wrong
The killing of a mother black bear and her cubs at their snow-covered den in Prince William Sound in April by an Alaska “hunter”...
Comment now on proposed hunting rules in national preserves
Comments are due by Sept. 6 on proposed changes in hunting regulations that would allow baiting brown bears, killing black bear mothers and cubs...
Sturgeon supports rural subsistence fishing preference
Commentary By Doug Pope
For The Cordova Times
When John Sturgeon walked into my office seven years ago, he had a simple story that the National...
