Rick Steiner
- Indexed articles, last 90 days
- 3
- Latest publication
- Jul 31, 2026
- Outlet visibility, for Adn
- Top 50K sites
- Earliest in this view
- Jul 8, 2026
Latest articles
Opinion: U.S. needs to refocus ocean management on ecosystem conservation (opens the original)
Read excerpt
Americaâs ocean management system is broken and in urgent need of repair. While Americaâs oceans support a multibillion-dollar economy, thousands of jobs and resources and services enjoyed by all, our ocean ecosystems are in significant decline due to overexploitation, climate change, acidification and pollution. Many marine species are threatened or endangered, and entire marine ecosystems, such as Arctic sea ice and coral reef systems, are severely threatened. Ocean ecosystems will have di
Letter: Editorial boardâs blind trust in state predator control science is misplaced (opens the original)
Read excerpt
The recent ADN editorial essentially lip-syncing the Alaska Department of Fish and Gameâs position in support of its Mulchatna predator control program, which to date has killed 254 brown bears, including newborn cubs, admonishes Alaskans to âstay with the science.â However, because the state refuses to submit its predator control program to independent scientific scrutiny, Alaskans are right not to trust what Fish and Game asserts as scientific justification. An expected short-term increa
Opinion: Alaskaâs whale-strike risk is growing while regulators keep studying the obvious (opens the original)
Read excerpt
The recent strike and killing of a pregnant fin whale by a cruise ship in the Gulf of Alaska tragically highlights decades of inaction by the federal government and shipping industry to enact reasonable measures to reduce this risk. Such whale protection measures include vessel speed reductions, or VSRs, to 10 knots or less and bow watches posted in designated whale habitat. A voluntary vessel speed reduction off California has reportedly reduced ship-whale strikes by half, while also reducing u
Publishing over time
Last 90 days. Choose a month to open its work.
Recurring subjects
Named in the text we hold. One piece can cover several.
Audience
Top 50K sites
For Adn, the outlet · Measured Aug 1, 2026
Website popularity band, not a count of readers or article views.
About this data
Counts cover the work we have indexed. Tone needs enough text and a confident classification. Excerpts and episode notes are not full articles or transcripts.
Identity or attribution wrong? Suggest a correction.