Archive - From the 49th

The following is an excerpt from my book Big Wild Life.

Jan 20 • Jeff Lund

Don't read too much into it

The first steelhead trip of the season does not set the tone for the rest of the season.

Jan 13 • Jeff Lund

The word of 2026

Personal strategies for the new year are often meant to bring individual results.

Jan 6 • Jeff Lund

December 2025

New year, new me?

The following is an excerpt from my book Beyond the Hunt.

Dec 30, 2025 • Jeff Lund

Everyone wants to be Jimmy

Hoosiers holds up.

Dec 23, 2025 • Jeff Lund

How rollbacks would impact Interior Alaska

It’s easy to refer to the Trans-Alaska Pipeline as an artery–maybe the artery–that sustains Alaska’s financial life.

Dec 18, 2025 • Jeff Lund

Another one (almost) gone

Round 1 of Year End reflections

Dec 16, 2025 • Jeff Lund

How to destroy a fishery

Industrial trawling is threatening Alaska's fishing future

Dec 11, 2025 • Jeff Lund

Change of plans

Phase 1 of Plan A worked, but Phase 2 turned to Plan B and before we knew it, we were headed home

Dec 9, 2025 • Jeff Lund

Going back in time

Rollbacks trade small short-term economic gains for long-term resource and ecosystem damage.

Dec 2, 2025 • Jeff Lund

November 2025

Inside the head

Nov 25, 2025 • Jeff Lund

Gifts of words and warmth

At some point you age out of Christmas being about the accumulation of stuff, but finding a thoughtful, useful gift shouldn’t start with a ChatGPT…

Nov 21, 2025 • Jeff Lund

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