First Annual Alaska Chapter Board Retreat and Crawdad Catch-and-Cook Stewardship Event October 2024: Event Recap     Board Retreat Earlier this year, our Chapter Chair, Dave Johnson, shared an idea of hosting a board retreat at his remote property on Kodiak Island, which he shares with a couple of friends. The chatter of this idea throughout the early part of the year soon came to fruition-- the offer was too good to pass up! The board has long wanted to do chapter planning in person, as in ...

  BY KEVIN FRALEY Snowdrifts piled up and buried my cabin in interior Alaska in the winter of 2019. Outside, temperatures hovered as low as minus 40 degrees. When the cold, dark months trapped me inside, I used the time to dream about Alaska’s short summer and fall seasons. Inside, I pored over online maps, planning an early fall trip. I’d stumbled onto a scientific report from the 1970s that described fish presence in rivers of Alaska’s Arctic Slope, the area of mountains, tundra and ...