Alaska Outdoors Magazine: By Alaskans, For Alaskans, Or For Anyone Who Ever Dreampt About Alaska

Alaska Outdoors Magazine: By Alaskans, For Alaskans, Or For Anyone Who Ever Dreampt About Alaska

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Alaska Outdoors Magazine: By Alaskans, For Alaskans, Or For Anyone Who Ever Dreampt About Alaska episodes

  • Is There a Difference Between Reindeer and Caribou

    Evan's guest, nonNative reindeer herder and Alaska attorney, comes to the show for the second time. This time Tom's talking about if there's any difference with caribou and reindeer; are some caribou really reindeer; if a reindeer escapes the herder and becomes wild is it now a caribou; and what happens if a hunter shoots a tagged reindeer thinking it's a caribou?

    The show ends with One Last Cast: White Mountain Caribou.

    43 min
  • What Do You Like About Alaska

    Today's episode is in two connected parts: one, callers and writers tell what they like about Alaska; and, two, Evan talks with his mother on her 81st birthday and listeners join in the discussion.

    Today's One Last Cast is titled: What's it Really Like Anyway.

    44 min
  • The Ten Best Tips For Winter Camping

    Evan's guest is REI's winter camping expert, Bill Flemming. Bill tells the best ten tips for winter camping including how to take care of personal needs during a cold night in a tent of igloo.

    Today's One Last Cast, The Last Freedom Flight, documents the last fly-in hunting trip just when Alaska was for Alaskans and before non-Alaskans started managing parks for the benefit of park rangers.

    41 min
  • What's a Fish Worth?

    Today's Alaska Outdoors episode features Evan's interview with Byron Mallott talking about the worth of subsistence and supplemental fishing and hunting.

    Today's One Last Cast asks and answers the What's a Fish Worth. One little fish. One little Dolly Varden.

    44 min
  • What's Alaska Outdoors Like According to the Alaska Outdoors Council?

    At the conclusion of today's show listeners are treated to One Last Cast: Two Records.

    Lars Swensen claims he's never been skunked on a fishing trip.

    Andy Couch pushes the king season envelope one more day.

    Today's guest is Rod Arno, president of Alaska Outdoors Council. Alaska Outdoors Council claims that they have the solution to Alaska's outdoor's issues.

    36 min
  • Iditasport includes biking, hiking, skiing, and snowshoeing.

    Evan's guests are Iditasport's Dan Bull and Fish and Wildlife biologist, Karen Lang. 

    Dan talks about the The Iditasport® Classic 170 mile, world famous historic human-powered race.

    Karen discusses Anchorage's multiplying goose problem.

    The show ends with One Last Cast: Alaska's Second Largest City.

    45 min
  • Does the Anchorage Convention and Visitors Bureau Help or Hurt Alaska Outdoors Activities

    Bill Elander, president of Anchorage Convention and Visitors Bureau (ACVB), claims that visitors make outdoor activities better—at least makes it possible for many to live in Alaska because of employment created or supplemented in pat by the ACVB. You may not think so when you find the fishing hole so crowded you have to take your own rock to stand on.

    You'll learn what's up with Wild About Anchorage.

    And end the show with One Last Cast by Ketch Ketchum—Alexander's Wallet. 

    46 min
  • What Would You Like To Say to Rob Holt, An Alaska Professional Hunter?

    Evan's guest is Rob Holt, an Alaska big game guide, president of Alaska Professional Hunters Association, and an Alaska subsistence user and advocate. 

    The show also features, Alaska Outdoors' Subsistence, Scenarios, and Solutions by Madge Kellyhouse of Fairbanks.

    You'll want to hear today's One Last Cast as Evan tells about Homestead, Florida resident, Jim Sanders' big rainbow—From Homestead to Alaska and Back Home to Homestead, Florida.

    38 min

About Alaska Outdoors Magazine: By Alaskans, For Alaskans, Or For Anyone Who Ever Dreampt About Alaska

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Alaska Outdoors Magazine podcast is by Alaskans, for Alaskans, about Alaskans, and for anyone who ever dreamed of coming to Alaska. Some programs were recorded live, and although the podcasts are dated, the information is as fresh as morning and current as tomorrow. Unfortunately, you will not be able to call in during the podcast; however, we’d like to hear from you. So give Evan a call by dialing (907) 561-3260.