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Federal workers spent last weekend fixing a bridge in the campground that leads to a boat launch on Sourdough Creek that accesses to an area on the Gulkana River renowned for great fishing – especially for king salmon.
The Bureau of Land Management closed the campground at milepost 147 on the Richardson Highway due to potential danger posed by damage to an approach on one side of the bridge leading back into the facility and a heavily-used boat ramp.
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Graham says the bridge repair is welcome news to both local and statewide fishermen and the guides who help them get to the best spots on the Gulkana River. It’s also a favorite staging area for boaters who float down from areas upriver, some from as far away as Paxson Lake.
Springtime means cleaning the garage and building a shed for all the stuff you clean out It is definitely spring, and spring is a time for wood. Firewood. Lumber. It is what the pre-summer season is made for. It is too late for decent snowmachining, though there are a few spots passable if one goes very early in the morning. The fishing is better than fair, but after a winter of fishing through the ice, most of us are looking for open water and it’s too early for that. It is either clean the garage or do anything else.
A January day in Alaska brings random thoughts on politics, fishing and snowmachines Author: John Schandelmeier
Print article There is no rhyme or reason to my thinking on this day. Maybe because I was up till midnight last night messing with a nice load of fire-killed spruce. I am far from political, but maybe Joe Biden will shut down the Pebble mine process. I will also bet the folks from Arctic Village are happy with Biden as he will quickly close ANWR back down. One has to scratch our heads and wonder what Gov. Mike Dunleavy is thinking with his court challenge of the Army Corps of Engineers’ rejection of the Pebble permit. Thought he was pro-fish?