Medicine’s Potential

Stepping aside from fly fishing for a moment… Most of what you hear about Medicine and medical research today involve potential revenue and profits for the major players (big pharma, genetic research labs, medical research labs etc…). There has been a push for patents in everything from future pharmaceutical drugs to newly discovered and even yet undiscovered genes. It [...]

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Newsworthy and the not so newsworthy

No time to post for awhile but in the meantime…   Craig man accused of ramming humpback whales by The Associated Press ANCHORAGE, Alaska – A man accused of ramming two humpback whales in the waters near Craig has reportedly reached a plea agreement with federal prosecutors. The Anchorage Daily News reports the deal calls for [...]

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Ghost Fishers

Spring in Alaska is slowly trickling along away from the now half-year long winter. The April snowstorm two days prior that left mouths agape and 8 inches of white is losing ground to steamy, wet pavement. The season’s first trip has been set and nothing can keep us away from the river. The popularity of our sport in [...]

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Haiti’s Plea…

In a world that at times seems so unfair in it’s random acts of nature, Haiti felt the devastation this past Tuesday in the form of a massive earthquake and aftershocks that leveled the foundation of an already impoverished nation. The fact that over 50% of Haitians live on less than $1 a day is a fact that [...]

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