Balanced coverage

This newspaper is blessed to have the opportunity to publish dozens of wildlife photos each year. For balance, some animals are featured alive, and some are dead. This is Alaska, right?

Many Petersburg families rarely shop the meat counters at local grocery stores. They live largely subsistence lifestyles and consume salmon, black cod, halibut, crab, clams, bear, moose, venison, ducks and sometimes elk. Before you eat it, you have to kill it.

We especially appreciate the generosity of many hunters and fishers who share their take with their neighbors and friends.

Sometimes our published photos...