Bjorn Dihle

This past winter in northern Southeast Alaska broke the record for snowfall, getting more than 200 inches in my hometown. The last time we had a similar winter was in ‘06-’07, when the Alaska Department of Fish & Game asked hunters to kill fawns out of mercy. During my last hunt that season, I...

Could whitetails be moving up into Alaska? That’s the question that brought Mark Kenyon to The Last Frontier and ultimately set him off on an exploration for answers and a hunt for Alaska’s native deer, Sitka blacktails. Accompanying Mark is Alaska resident, author, and blacktail deer aficionado...

I woke to the sound of a large brown bear crackling through the brush near my tent. It was early April and I was guiding a small natural history film crew on an island in Southeast Alaska. At the beginning of three weeks of filming, our primary goal was to capture video of brown bears feeding on a...

Shortly after graduating high school, my buddy Ed got run over by a truck while riding a bicycle. We’d been planning a mountain goat hunt up the Taku River near where Ed’s family had a cabin. I figured the hunt was off. The accident was the sort that would have killed most people, but Ed walked it...