I’d heard about some superb late-season salmon fishing on the Delta Clearwater River years ago, and finally the time came to try it out.
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Category Archives: Natural history
The Many Values of Nothing
Ahhh, fall. The gradual change in the air, the turning of the leaves, and the haunting calls of Sandhill Cranes as they gather to migrate south again. And to once again stalk the wily moose. Fall seems so brief up here that when September arrives you’re just itching to get out and enjoy nature and see if you can bring a tasty friend home for dinner.
During last year’s caribou hunt, we’d talked about trying a float trip down the Wood River this year for moose. And so early one morning Kevin May, Ken Severin, and I met up at Wright Air Service with all of our gear to fly out and get dropped off on the Wood River as it flows north out of the Alaska Range. Kevin flew out on the first flight with a bunch of our gear, and Ken and I joined him about two hours later on an airstrip cut out of the forest and running uphill. There was a horse-based hunting guide’s camp there. He’d come in from the south.
These Giants Live Here No More
Some years ago, a road was punched through the woods above us, shrinking both the forest and the number of moose hanging out in our neighborhood.
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When the Forest Farts
We’re coming to the end of summer, and the season’s bounty is out there ripe for the harvest.
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Beringian Apocalypse
Our beautiful spring and early summer weather was idyllic. Rose and I had dinner on the deck every evening, and we were often outside reading until ten or eleven PM. But as things got dryer and temperatures pushed into the low 80s each day, we grew concerned. Then Zeus sent thunderbolts from the sky and set Beringia on fire.