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Current sport fish fishing report for Juneau

...smolt. Anglers will use small spinners or smolt pattern flies to catch hungry fish actively feeding on this important food source. Local anglers will have luck finding fish at the mouth of Montana Creek, Salmon Creek, Peterson Creek and salt chuck...

http://juneauempire.com/outdoors/2013-05-17/current-sport-fish-fishing-report-ju
Outdoors
Scientist: Cassava disease spread at alarming rate

...prepared for more diseases," Fauquet said.Scientists have called cassava "the Rambo" of food crops, a singular food source expected to become even more productive as the Earth warms, resistant to drought and simply shutting down until rains...

http://juneauempire.com/michelle-faul/2013-05-08/scientist-cassava-disease-sprea
On the Trails: Nectaries - A plant protector

...nectaries on the leaves, at least on young trees. Still to be determined is whether or not bodyguards recruit to this food source and reduce herbivory on these trees.Surprisingly, perhaps, nectaries also occur on some ferns, including bracken...

http://juneauempire.com/outdoors/2013-04-05/trails-nectar-pollinators-and-produc
Outdoors
Chef dishes local foods at Sitka school

SITKA - While many focus on Alaska's food source challenges, Anchorage chef Rob Kinneen capitalizes on the strengths."We should be working on where we are," said Kinneen...

http://juneauempire.com/state/2013-03-09/chef-dishes-local-foods-sitka-school
State
State postpones wolf control near 2 villages

...specifically asked the department to focus on wolves rather than bears because bears represent a commonly used alternative food source.___Information from: Fairbanks (Alaska) Daily News-Miner, http://www.newsminer.com

http://juneauempire.com/state/2012-12-04/state-postpones-wolf-control-near-2-vil
State
National Park Service proposes to counteract state hunting changes

...superintendent at Yukon-Charley Rivers National Preserve in unit 20E agreed."Our sense is the idea of habituating bears to food sources that are human sourced is not a good idea in any National Park Service unit," he said, "especially when we have...

http://juneauempire.com/state/2012-12-11/national-park-service-proposes-countera
State
On the Trails: Ergot

...causation.Ergot's effects are now well known, but very small percentages of ergoty grain are reportedly allowed in our food sources (wheat, less than 0.05 percent by weight; rye, less than 0.3 percent, and so on). One presumes that such...

http://juneauempire.com/outdoors/2012-12-21/trails-ergot
Outdoors
Marketing Alaska's seafood to the world

...after the U.S. market," Fick said.In an effort to bolster local use of Alaska's seafood and other home-grown food sources, Rep. Bill Stoltze of Wasilla introduced House Concurrent Resolution 1. The resolution would establish a food resource...

http://juneauempire.com/state/2013-01-30/marketing-alaskas-seafood-world
State
Food system resolution advances in House

...support," according to his press secretary, Sharon Leighow. "The governor strongly supports local, sustainable food sources," Leighow wrote in an email Thursday.? Contact reporter Mark D. Miller at 586-1821 or at mark.d.miller...

http://juneauempire.com/state/2013-01-31/food-system-resolution-advances-house
State
My Turn: Food security does not come from the store

...means to be self-reliant, the more resilient our communities will be. In addition to our robust and productive wild food sources that we must protect as sacred - not just as conservationists, but also as consumers of food - we should look seriously...

http://juneauempire.com/opinion/2012-11-06/my-turn-food-security-does-not-come-s
Opinion

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