Alaska

Chuck Bundrant, the cofounder of Seattle-based Trident Seafoods died Sunday at his home in Edmonds, WA, at the age of 79. Bundrant arrived in Seattle in 1961 as a 19-year old from Evansville, IN and started working in the fisheries as a way to pay for college ...

On Wednesday, the EPA announced that up to $3 million is available for locally-focused environmental education grants thanks to the 2021 Environmental Education (EE) Local Grant Program. EPA will award grants in each of EPA’s 10 Regions. The ...

On Wednesday, Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack announced the Department of Agriculture is investing $167 million in 12 states to deploy broadband infrastructure. The investment focuses on rural areas without sufficient access to high-speed internet ...

The American Farm Bureau Federation is one of many ag groups calling on the Biden Administration to act responsibly when it comes to conservation. Biden’s goal to conserve at least 30% of U.S. land and water by 2030, commonly known as “30X30,” is raising many questions. April Clayton w ...

Eastern Idaho’s Marquee Ricks was named the winner of the 2021 American Farm Bureau Federation Discussion Meet in early January. Ricks, who faced off against 29 other state winners, says this is a competition that is always very competitive every year, which brings out the best and brightest minds from the young farmer and rancher community. "It wa ...

In case you needed another reason to be happy that 2020 is behind us. "It appears that a modern U.S. record has been set for wildfire acreage during the extraordinarily active western wildfire season of 2020," USDA meteorologist, Brad Rippey recently said ...

If you were to rank this year, in terms of acreage burned by wildfires nationwide, where would it sit? "So far in 2020 we've gotten above 9.5 million acres. And currently looking at the modern statistics this ranks # 4," according to USDA Meteorologist Brad Rippey. "S ...

The year 2020 will be one to remember for a variety of reasons, so good, some not so good. This year could go down in the not-so-good category,  when looking at the number of acres burned this wildfire season. "Only twice in modern history have we seen ten million acres burned nationally," noted USDA meteorologist Brad Rippey. "F ...

The U.S. Census Bureau has reported that Idaho is among six other states and Puerto Rico with the highest overall census response rate. According to the Lewiston Tribune, as of last week, 99.9% of Idaho households have been counted. Among the responses, 69 ...

Earlier this week, the Trump Administration gave the formal go ahead to open the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge to oil and gas drilling, a move backed by American Farme Bureau Federation. The move, authorized by a 2017 budget bill, caps a forty-year GOP effort opposed by environmentalists and some Alaska Natives, and will likely to go to court ...