Situated in southwest Alaska, Lake Iliamna is renowned for its pure water, freshwater seals and fish. Now, it is the center of one of the most contentious debates in the state. The mine would sit 17 ...

A biologist says he believes a mysterious creature spotted in Alaska's Lake Iliamna may in fact be nothing more spectacular than a large sleeper shark. Writing in the Alaska Dispatch, biologist Bruce ...

Add this question to the many mysteries of Iliamna Lake: Where the heck do its unique, freshwater harbor seals go when the lake and rivers freeze shut? Dave Withrow, a federal research biologist who ...

ANCHORAGE — Lake Iliamna in Alaska is North America’s eighth-largest lake, but nobody would mistake it for the Pacific Ocean. Not even a seabird. So when thousands of common murres were found dead at ...

ANCHORAGE, Alaska— The Center for Biological Diversity filed a formal petition today to protect Iliamna Lake seals under the Endangered Species Act. These unique, little-understood seals are one of ...

NOAA Fisheries announced today that after review, they view the listing of Pacific harbor seals in Iliamna Lake as an endangered or threatened species under the Endangered Species Act as not warranted ...

Iliamna Lake harbor seals, members of one of the world's five freshwater seal populations, rest on the ice surface of Alaska's biggest lake in this undated photo. Their ability to live in an ...

Next summer, I plan to fish for the Lake Iliamna Monster. I’m bored of catching salmon, halibut and trout, and it doesn’t look like the Feds are going to allow even catch-and-release whaling anytime ...

This is the site of the crash after ground responders began to arrive via air craft and snow mobile. Alaska Department of Public Safety photo In a harrowing scenario straight out of a movie, a Cessna ...

Spies and reporters know the value of blending in. You want to be the gray man, and observe as much as you can without attracting attention to yourself. That wasn't going to happen in Iliamna. I flew ...