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University fisheries program attracts more students, and not just from Alaska
Now in its 15th year, the applied fisheries program at the University of Alaska Southeast draws students from across the state and across the country. Not just ocean states like Florida, but the Great Lakes state of Wisconsin, and even landlocked...
Police report
Monday, Oct. 30 Civil matter. Deer complaint. Agency assist: Ambulance. Tuesday, Oct. 31 Parking complaint. Dog at large. Report of suspicion of driving under the influence. Wednesday, Nov. 1 Agency assist: Fire Department. Traffic stop: Verbal...
Little Lakes top priority for new Forest Service cabin
After a yearlong public process, the U.S. Forest Service has announced eight potential cabin sites in the Petersburg and Wrangell Ranger Districts. After considering the environmental impacts and...
WCA nears completion of Transportation Department building
The Wrangell Cooperative Association is nearing completion of its 5,000-square-foot maintenance and warehouse building on Zimovia Highway. The facility is in its second year of construction, though planning for the project started about a decade ago....
Kolarich promoted from district ranger to deputy forest supervisor
Clint Kolarich, who served as Wrangell's district ranger since June 2019, has moved to Ketchikan to work as one of the Tongass National Forest's two deputy forest supervisors. He officially stepped in...
Mitchell "Mickey" Julius Prescott, May 24, 1940 - September 28, 2023
Mickey Prescott has gone fishing. Mitchell "Mickey" Julius Prescott was born on May 24, 1940, and died in Wrangell at his fish camp, Mickey's Fish Camp, on Sept. 28, 2023. He was 83 years old. Mickey... Full story
High school students map glacier with GPS, sonar technology
For the first time since the pandemic, Wrangell High School students traveled to Shakes Glacier to survey the area and measure the rate that the glacier is receding. Students have been recording the...
Nonprofit donates new boats for Virginia Lake, Middle Ridge cabins
A couple of Wrangell-area U.S. Forest Service cabins will have new 16-foot aluminum boats next year, courtesy of a national nonprofit organization. The new boats will go to two of the most popular cabins in the area: Middle Ridge, accessible by...
Record number of Anan permits used this year
A record number of people visited Anan Wildlife Observatory this season - the largest amount since 2004, when the permit system was implemented. Of the 2,905 visitors who came through the observatory...
Southeast economy continues to recover but housing and child care in short supply
Wages rose and job opportunities increased across much of Southeast through 2022, but problems such as the lack of affordable housing and child care remain persistent throughout the region, an economic consultant told the annual gathering of the Sout...
Lawsuits say Tongass Roadless Rule gets in the way of prospective clean energy
The state of Alaska, a coalition of business groups and a pair of electric-power organizations have opened a new round in the generation-long fight over environmental protections in Southeast Alaska’s Tongass National Forest. On Sept. 8, the state a... Full story
Forest Service will work to lower cost of viewing platform for historic boat
The borough hopes to partner with the U.S. Forest Service to give the Chugach - a wooden Forest Service boat built in 1925 - an improved permanent home outside the Nolan Center, complete with a...
School board race attracts two candidates for one seat
Voters on Oct. 3 will choose between incumbent Esther Aaltséen Reese and challenger John DeRuyter for a three-year term on the school board. It is the only one of five school board seats on this...
Gary Morrison unopposed for fourth port commission term
Gary Morrison is running unopposed for his fourth term on the port commission. He is seeking reelection so that he can support ongoing harbor projects and, he admits, "because no one else is doing...
Forest Service now requires annual parking tags at Zarembo Island lot
The Zarembo Island parking lot is free, as are the tags to put on the windshield. What’s changing is that the U.S. Forest Service now wants people to get a new tag each year so that the agency can keep better track of vehicles left at the R...
State challenges federal roadless rule for Tongass
A legal challenge by the state to the Biden administration’s reinstatement of the roadless rule, banning logging and road building on more than nine million acres in the Tongass National Forest, was filed Friday, Sept. 8, in federal court. The c...
Visitors wander around the app, looking at Wrangell sights
The Wrangell Convention and Visitor Bureau’s new interactive, destination-focused map pinpoints dozens of businesses, community services, recreational opportunities and more, providing useful information for anyone planning a trip or thinking of s...
Wrangell's Native community continues advocating for corporation lands
Advocates of the longstanding effort to create five new Southeast Alaska Native corporations say it's about ancestry, economic value and correcting a five-decade-old wrong. This year, legislation...
Police report
Monday, Aug. 21 Suspicious incident. Illegal parking. Trespass. Trespass. Suspicious circumstance. Suspicious circumstance. Tuesday, Aug. 22 Deer complaint. Drugs. Traffic stop. Traffic stop. Wednesday, Aug. 23 Agency assist: Ambulances requested at...
Proposed increase would raise Anan fee to $50 by 2027
Visitors to the Anan Wildlife Observatory could pay much more than the current daily $10 permit fee if a proposed increase is approved later this year. The U.S. Forest Service recently proposed boosting the fee to $50 per person, per day. If...
Take an interest in proposed Anan fee increase
Visitors to the Anan Wildlife Observatory currently pay a fee of $10 for a day’s visit to the popular bear viewing spot during the permit season of July and August. The U.S. Forest Service, which runs and maintains the observatory, has not raised t...
Forest Service to reconstruct Anan Bay cabin next summer
The Forest Service’s Anan Bay cabin, which was destroyed by a fallen tree in February, will be one of the first seven cabins built — or in this case, rebuilt — as part of the federally funded Alaska cabins project. Reconstruction on the cabin is sc...
Rebuild will keep Roosevelt Harbor dock out of service until next year
The dock at Roosevelt Harbor on Zarembo Island, about 15 miles southwest of Wrangell, was severely damaged in a storm last winter and will be out of service until next year. Initially, the U.S. Forest Service said it hoped to have the dock fixed by...
BearFest celebration fosters friendly competition
BearFest attendees brought their culinary and athletic skills to bear at the celebration's games, tournaments and contests. The festival, which ran from July 26 to July 30, featured a golf...
British rangers use vacation to volunteer, learn conservation methods
When most people think of vacation, they don't necessarily think about work. But for visiting Britons Kate Dziubinska and Charlie Winchester, their work is the reason for their vacation. Winchester,...
