...appropriate place for a huge mining operation. Period. This is a seismic area at the headwaters of the Kvichak and Mulchatna rivers and the Talarik Creek drainages. This is the fountainhead of not only Alaska's thriving commercial fishery but...

...package, request of governor. Senate Bill 67: Creates the Jay Hammond State Game Refuge in the Kvichak and Nushagak-Mulchatna River drainages. Sponsors: Sen. Gary Stevens, R-Kodiak, Sen. Johnny Ellis, D-Anchorage. Senate Concurrent Resolution...

...in Colorado, but only one bear - another black bear - in Alaska. That was a large, berry-eating bear from the Mulchatna River drainage the hunter killed for food. "That was one tender and delicious bear," Sorensen said. "I rendered the...