Susitna News

The Denali Highway is open. The rivers and the tourists are beginning to flow. There is ice streaming under the Susitna and Maclaren river bridges and rent-a-cars bumping along on top.

Company now holds exclusive exploration rights on 3 tracts totaling 580,147 acres in lightly explored basin north of Anchorage Anchorage-based Cook Inlet Energy LLC's Alaska land holdings grew considerably on April 1. That was the effective date for the little independent's newest exploration license in the Susitna basin, north of Anchorage and ... (more)

Northern district setnetters and sport fishermen in Upper Cook Inlet are going to be facing restrictions early in the season due to depressed numbers of king salmon returning to the Susitna drainage this year.

Two Mat-Su public hearings on the proposed Susitna River dam this week brought out both supporters and opponents, but almost everyone agreed that the $4.3 billion, 700-foot-high dam shouldn't damage salmon runs, reports The Mat-Su Valley Frontiersman .