As Sarah Crawford Isto noted in her 2012 book, “The Fur Farms of Alaska: Two Centuries of History and a Forgotten Stampede,” the same Alaska blue fox pelt that sold for $47 in 1914 was going ...

A traditional squirrel skin parka on display Saturday, April 1, 2017, during a workshop on Yup’ik regalia, at Cama-i Dance Festival in Bethel, Alaska.

arts entertainment Travel . Annual fur festival draws tourists to Alaska's frozen frontier Since 1935, the Anchorage Fur Rendezvous -- locals simply call it Rondy -- has brightened the long, dark ...

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And that's very important in Alaska. Despite having so much experience with a needle and thread, she's always held off making a parka. "One of my dreams is to make my own full fur parka, similar ...

FAIRBANKS — Alaska’s distance dog mushers continue to rely on fur to keep warm on the trail, even as they’ve increasingly switched from natural to synthetic equipment in other parts ...

With needles, sinew and beach grass in hand, a group of women in Alaska have breathed life back into an old tradition and learned a new skill in the process: sewing the intestines of bears into ...

ANCHORAGE, Alaska – Alaska’s northern fur seal population for three decades has been classified as depleted, but the marine mammals are showing up in growing numbers at an unlikely location: a ...

It's waterproof. It's windproof. It's lightweight and durable. And it's made from the intestines of two bears, painstakingly cleaned and sewn together by a group of women in Alaska.

ANCHORAGE, Alaska (AP) — Alaska’s northern fur seal population for three decades has been classified as depleted, but the marine mammals are showing up in growing numbers at an unlikely ...

Geographically speaking, the island is not a particularly unusual place for the seals known for their thick coats to hang out. Most of the world’s roughly 1.1 million northern fur seals breed in ...

A mature northern fur seal stands on a beach on Bogoslof Island, Ala., in August 2019. Alaska's northern fur seals are thriving on an island that's the tip of an active undersea volcano. Numbers ...