The idea of building a road to connect the Yukon and Kuskokwim rivers has been studied for decades, but a new program spearheaded by the state transportation department could finally make the link ...

Yoshitsugu Kobayashi (far left), Gilbert Huntington (second left), Tony Fiorillo (center) and Paul McCarthy (seated) look over a geologic map of Alaska to figure out where the best opportunity to find ...

This reporting was supported by a Carnegie Foundation Fellowship. Writers Olivia Ebertz and Bathsheba Demuth boated more than 1,000 miles up and down the Yukon River last summer, hearing the stories ...

A few days ago, at the end of a summerlong journey in which he navigated nearly the entire Yukon River without a boat, Denis Morin was overcome by all he was and all he had been through. The ...

RCC Perspectives, No. 4, Big Country, Big Issues: Canada's Environment, Culture, and History (2011), pp. 16-43 (28 pages) Attla, Catherine. K'etetaalkkaannee: The One Who Paddled Among the People and ...

Photograph by Michael Christopher Brown. See the story, photos, and map in the March issue of National Geographic Magazine. I certainly have a much better understanding of true wilderness, due in ...