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Craig Medred

Outrage visited on Alaska wolf trapper misplaced

Opinion: What Coke Wallace, a Healy trapper, did was what wolves do to each other all the time. He killed one. Wolves have no such utilitarian goals when they kill each other. They just want power.

Craig Medred

| May 24, 2012

He's no George, but Tubby the rabbit will steal your heart, too

To Karan Nixon, George was family. She loved that paraplegic rabbit who powered his wheeled cart around with his front paws in a powerful way.

Craig Medred

| May 23, 2012

The cold, hard truth: An Alaska guide's screw-ups killed somebody on Mount McKinley

Dave Staeheli screwed up. We all screw up. The difference here is that Staeheli’s screw up cost lives. It makes me feel lucky to be a journalist because we screw up all the time. But when we screw up, nobody dies.

Craig Medred

| May 20, 2012

Alaska Copper River kings: If salmon fat equals taste, why aren't flabby farmed salmon tops?

Salmon hype amped up this week as Alaska's Copper River salmon hit the market. But where exactly does hype end and taste begin for some of Alaska's tastiest fish?

Craig Medred

| May 18, 2012

Iditarod musher attacked by his own knife becomes laughing stock

OPINION: Twenty years from now, people are going to look back on the Iditarod and remember Mitch Seavey not for winning in 2004 -- but for deciding a stupid accident wasn't his fault.

Craig Medred

| May 17, 2012

Alaska Squirrel Foundation wants more than just peanuts from lawmakers

SATIRE: The Alaska Squirrel Federation is preparing a pitch for state money to fund a relocation and rescue program to benefit Alaskans and help save the lives of squirrels.

Craig Medred

| May 1, 2012

Nugent acted ethically in Alaska bear hunt, if not legally

It's time someone defended Ted Nugent against non-hunters saying that he acted unethically in unlawfully killing an Alaska black bear.

Craig Medred

| Apr 30, 2012

Why did Ted Nugent spin his illegal Alaska hunt?

If Nugent took a plea to pay $10,000 and avoid a felony charge, he was a wise man. But if he did all this to simply avoid fighting the Feds over a misdemeanor, then he's a coward.

Craig Medred

| Apr 28, 2012

Do Alaska State Troopers have a search and rescue double standard?

If someone goes missing in Kotzebue, state troopers may send gas and oil for an organized search. Get tired on a hike outside Anchorage, and the state offers a helicopter taxi ride.

Craig Medred

| Apr 25, 2012

Why is Ted Nugent pleading guilty in Alaska bear case?

Rocker turned big-talker Ted Nugent shot a bear in Alaska in 2009. Three years later, he will plead guilty to illegally transporting its hide. Is the guilty plea a move to save face?

Craig Medred

| Apr 22, 2012

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As a one-time newspaper reporter, Craig Medred has covered everything from the luxury cruiseship Prinsendam in the Gulf of Alaska to the disappearance of Japanese national hero Naomi Uemera on the slopes of Mt. McKinley to the bogus "rescue" of a pair of young, foolish whales trapped by ice near Point Barrow. Along the way, it has been his luck to sail a small boat across the Gulf, climb on the glaciers of North America's tallest peak, and spend a lot of time shivering in the cold dark. He prefers any of those things to reporting on the manueverings in Alaska's halls of power where the 49th state's resources are often divvied up between the powerful and the near powerless. In Alaska, however, he has discovered that politics is something that cannot be avoided, even by those who live in cabins in the woods, and thus he has often found himself embroiled in stories of a political nature. In journalism as in life, he often approaches things with a directness prone to win him a few friends and plenty of enemies.

Contact Medred at craig(at)alaskadispatch.com.

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Alaska Life Blog - Craig Medred

Outrage visited on Alaska wolf trapper misplaced

He's no George, but Tubby the rabbit will steal your heart, too

The cold, hard truth: An Alaska guide's screw-ups killed somebody on Mount McKinley

Alaska Copper River kings: If salmon fat equals taste, why aren't flabby farmed salmon tops?

Iditarod musher attacked by his own knife becomes laughing stock

Alaska Squirrel Foundation wants more than just peanuts from lawmakers

Nugent acted ethically in Alaska bear hunt, if not legally

Why did Ted Nugent spin his illegal Alaska hunt?

Do Alaska State Troopers have a search and rescue double standard?

Why is Ted Nugent pleading guilty in Alaska bear case?

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