Margaret Bauman

Margaret Bauman
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Margaret Bauman is a veteran Alaska journalist focused on covering fisheries and environmental issues. Bauman has been writing for The Cordova Times since 2010. You can reach her at fisheriesreporter@gmail.com.
Shoppers at 3:30 p.m. Jan. 12 were lined up on both sides of the entrance to Sam’s Club off Dimond Blvd. in Anchorage. They said they were waiting about one hour to get into the store. Despite recent announcements that Sears in Anchorage and all three Sam’s Clubs stores in Alaska are closing, Alaska is seeing a softening of the recession and the economy seems to be improving a bit, says state labor economist Neal Fried. Photo by Margaret Bauman/The Cordova Times

Perks, buds and visitors will boost state’s 2018 finances

Job losses will continue in some areas of the Alaska economy in 2018, but the good news is more than a million visitors are...
Sam Snyder, engagement director for Trout Unlimited, with his children, Finn, 6, and Deacon, 4, helped deliver boxes of petitions in support of putting the Stand for Salmon petition on the Alaska ballot during a 2018 election. Photo by Margaret Bauman/The Cordova Times

Election Division receives petitions to put salmon initiative on ballot

Backers of an initiative to update a 60-year-old law guiding development of projects in salmon habitat have gathered over 49,500 signatures in support of...

Feds, King Cove Corp. reach land exchange agreement

After decades of fighting to complete a road between the small Aleutians fishing community of King Cove and the all-weather airport at Cold Bay,...

BOEM open house on proposed offshore leasing is Jan. 23

An open house format meeting in Anchorage on Jan. 23 is one of 23 scheduled across the country in January and February to collect...

Marketplace for CRS just keeps growing

From its onset 22 years ago, to protect the resources supporting fishing families in the Cordova area, Copper River Seafoods has expanded its markets...

Seafood science issues highlight upcoming gatherings

Harvesters, processors, research biologists and technologists engaged in boosting Alaska’s commercial fisheries industry have a busy meeting schedule from January through the start of...

Michelle Ridgway fatally injured in car crash

Marine ecologist Michelle Ridgway, best known in the fisheries and environmental communities for her passion as an ocean conservationist, died in a Seattle hospital...

UPDATE: Hunters found after four-day search

Three hunters from Wasilla overdue on a trip from Montague Island to Whittier aboard a 20-foot Duckworth jet boat have been found on Chenega...

CRWP will present at AMSS on citizen scientists

Efforts to train some 400 citizen scientists in researching salmon habitat in the Copper River watershed will be in the spotlight on Jan. 23,...

Upbeat in advance of the 2018 salmon season

Salmon, as one major processor observed, is always complicated.The Prince William Sound commercial salmon forecast was still being calculated in late December, with state...
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