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 ...

An Alaska state wildlife trooper sports a fur hat on March 5, 2023, at the Willow Lake restart of the 2023 Iditarod Trail Sled Dog Race. Troopers were at the restart to help with traffic and crowd ...

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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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.

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 ...

Across the wide variety of jackets that I tested, the Allta Polar L8 was far and away the best jacket for brutally cold weather. It’s similar in some ways to the old canvas fur-ruffed parka that my ...

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 ...

Fairbanks-based Alaska State Troopers visiting the Interior village of Allakaket in December 2023 pose for a photo while wearing fur hats. Such hats are provided by the state to help troopers work ...

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 ...