By Hal Shepherd, Acting Executive Director, Kachemak Bay Conservation Society Homer, Alaska The BP Oil Disaster in the Gulf of Mexico last year should serve as a stark reminder to Alaskans just how vulnerable our fisheries and the families they support are to spilled oil.  Alaska is no stranger to such events. Cook Inlet, which [...]

I managed to catch this shot of Buf the Dog catching a few Z’s in the midday sun today.  When she heard my phone make the clicky picture-taking noise, she opened one eye, then closed it, and resumed her nap. Life is rough.

I listened with the rest of the nation last night as the news leaked about the death of Osama bin Laden at the hands of U.S. forces on the ground in Pakistan. And I listened to the President deliver (as usual) a thoughtful, respectful, address to the nation. And then, I wondered, what would critics [...]

  Here’s another one to add to the hilarious graffiti folder. This one from Madison, Wisconsin.

~Thick and fast they came at last, and more, and more and more! A Mudflatter recently asked me what an “Oyster Roundup” was, and I thought it might be time to give a refresher. In the epic poem “The Walrus and the Carpenter” from Lewis Carroll’s Through the Looking Glass, the two main characters walk along [...]

~The old-fashioned way Whether you choose to celebrate May Day the old fashioned way, by dancing around a pole and getting frisky in the woods, or the modern way by celebrating the importance of unions and the history of the labor movement, (or both!) may you have a happy and productive one. ~The modern way