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1 week ago | 
alaskamagazine.com | Bjorn Dihle
In 1907, Annie Montague Alexander, a naturalist, paleontologist and world traveler, was camped with a team of scientists on Admiralty Island in southeast Alaska. She was trying to make good on her dream of collecting specimens to create a museum of natural history on the west coast of America. Having witnessed the depletion and extinction of wildlife in the Lower 48, Alexander saw the museum as a way to help preserve the country’s natural history. C.
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1 month ago | 
themeateater.com | Christopher Bancroft |Travis Hall |Bjorn Dihle |Jordan Sillars
In a moment of pure terror, Gene Moe turned to see a 600-pound brown bear charging. With his gun leaning against a tree and knife in hand, Moe was ready to accept his fate. It was him or the bear, and he was going to drive that knife as deep down that monster's throat as he could.
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2 months ago | 
huntalaskamagazine.com | Bjorn Dihle |Heather Lee
Brooks Range hunting is a dream for Alaskans and visitors alike. Learn what it’s like and what it takes to protect this incredible landscape. By Bjorn Dihle Heart-stopping vistas, unmatched solitude, and once-in-a-lifetime wildlife encounters are business as usual—In short, it’s like a dream. Note: This article was originally published as a blog for Hunters & Anglers for the Brooks Range.
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Dec 10, 2024 | 
trcp.org | Bjorn Dihle |Jaclyn Higgins |Dan Morgan |Ryan Lockwood
The Restoration of Sitka Blacktail Deer Habitat in Southeast Alaska: Part 2 In Part I of this two-part series, Bjorn Dihle covered how a significant portion of Southeast Alaska’s young growth forest is about to enter stem exclusion, or is already there.
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Dec 4, 2024 | 
trcp.org | Bjorn Dihle |Dan Morgan |Ryan Lockwood |Noah Davis
The Restoration of Sitka Blacktail Deer Habitat: Part 1 In this two-part series, Bjorn Dihle examines how restoration work of young growth forest by the Forest Service in collaboration with nonprofits, Tribes, and state and private partners will help Southeast Alaska’s Sitka blacktail deer population in the Tongass National Forest My brother and I were hiking up a ridge in Southeast Alaska when we spotted a group of six Sitka blacktail bucks. There was no practical way to get within rifle...
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Sep 26, 2024 | 
themeateater.com | Eli Fournier |Sam Lungren |Bjorn Dihle
In early September, the US Forest Service released a draft decision notice that would allow for the recommissioning of an old mine site at the headwaters of the South Fork Salmon River in central Idaho. The Stibnite Mine, as Perpetua Resources has named it, would be the largest antimony producer in the country (antimony is used in lead-acid batteries and flame retardants), and potentially one of the top ten producing gold deposits as well.
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Aug 23, 2024 | 
themeateater.com | Jordan Sillars |Travis Hall |Bjorn Dihle |Maggie Hudlow
A black bear hunter barely escaped with his life last week after an adult female grizzly bear charged him in a remote section of southeast Alaska. His story has since gone viral on both social and traditional media, and he spoke with MeatEater over the phone to give us the nitty gritty details. “I didn’t register anything,” Tyler Johnson, 32, said of the moment the bear tackled him to the ground.
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Jul 31, 2024 | 
fishalaskamagazine.com | Bjorn Dihle |Heather Lee
Sheefish ice fishing in Alaska offers a unique and thrilling experience, with anglers targeting these large, aggressive fish in remote locations. Concerns over proposed developments, such as the Ambler Road, highlight the need to preserve this pristine environment and its exceptional fishing opportunities. A most unique angling opportunity in Alaska’s Brooks Rangeby Bjorn DihleNote: This article was originally published as a blog for Hunters & Anglers for the Brooks Range.
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Jun 7, 2024 | 
yahoo.com | Bjorn Dihle
Bjorn DihleJune 7, 2024 at 7:17 AM·11 min readDURING THE WINTER of 1939, a woods-wise bachelor named Crist Kolby traveled up the Thorne River on Southeast Alaska’s Prince of Wales Island to trap for the season. He set up his base near the river’s headwaters, at a small shack known as the Hanson cabin that was built by a couple other trappers a few decades before. Kolby hailed from Ketchikan, a bustling logging and fishing community that lay 50 miles away by water.
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Feb 2, 2024 | 
alaskamagazine.com | Authentic Alaska |Bjorn Dihle
This year marks the 100th anniversary of the Taku Glacier Lodge. The lodge has had a number of owners, but none stand out as much as the pioneer and adventurer Mary Joyce. Her story is a local legend, but she’s mostly unknown outside of Juneau. In 1929, Joyce was in her early 20s and working as a nurse in a Los Angeles hospital when she began attending to a patient named Leigh Hackley “Hack” Smith.
