By Editor, on April 6th, 2012 By Jill Burke | ALASKA DISPATCH
Alaska’s heavy snow pack, coupled with cooler-than-average temperatures, is a recipe for flooding this year. Hydrologists with the National Weather Service delivered the news during a roundtable discussion on the issue Thursday morning in Anchorage with U.S. Sen. Lisa Murkowski, R-Alaska.
“This winter has been very much a see-saw. November was cold, December was warm. January was cold, February was warm. March was cold, and now the question is: ‘What’s April going to be?’,” said Scott Lindsey, a hydrologist with the weather service’s river watch program in Anchorage.
Read the full story in the Alaska Dispatch.
By Gary Lidholm, on April 2nd, 2012  “You always get a special kick on opening day, no matter how many you go through. You look forward to it like a birthday party when you’re a kid. You think something wonderful is going to happen – JOE DIMAGGIO
by Gary Lidholm
After a very long Denver winter with an overdose of “Tebow and Peyton Manning Mania” and radio talk shows about the Broncos, Nuggets, and Avalanche, a few of us breath deeply and say, “Thank goodness baseball season has finally arrived.” It’s opening week for major league baseball at last. Read more->
By Editor, on February 21st, 2012 Jill Burke, Shawna Williard-Burke | ALASKA DISPATCH
It’s probably the last thing hospital-goers expected to see Sunday on their way into a hospital in Alaska’s largest city: a moose standing in the hallway.
No, not a stuffed or mounted moose. This particular moose was a live ungulate on the move.
See the video and read the full story in the Alaska Dispatch.
By Editor, on February 14th, 2012 Mike Campbell | ALASKA DISPATCH
Tok musher Hugh Neff ended a career of near misses and heartbreaks before dawn on Tuesday when he ran down Allen Moore to capture the closest Yukon Quest International Sled Dog Race by a single minute.
Neff crossed the finish line in Whitehorse in the pre-dawn darkness at 5:14 a.m. with his nine strongest dogs still in harness. Moore was just a tick of the clock behind with 10 dogs.
Read full article in the Alaska Dispatch.
By Editor, on February 10th, 2012 Beth Bragg | ADN
The Yukon Quest International Sled Dog race served up mystery on both ends of the trail Wednesday night and Thursday morning.
Read more in the ADN
By Editor, on January 28th, 2012 By Brian Edwards | ACCUWEATHER
Alaskans have been experiencing the most brutal winter conditions of anybody in the United States this season. Thanks to cold being bottled up across the Northwest Territories and Alaska, the season has been chock full of snow, frigid temperatures, and plenty of ice fog to go around.
Read the full story at Accuweather.com.
By Editor, on January 25th, 2012 By Tom Patrick | YUKON NEWS
Whitehorse’s Jarrid Davy hurtled down the Haines Highway at near record speeds at the Alcan 200 International Snow Machine Road Rally on Saturday.
Averaging a speed of 191 kilometres an hour, Davy was about two kilometres an hour from the record. (Average times include fuel stops.)
Though just off the record, his speed was enough to win his second straight title in the 651cc-open class, one of four divisions won by Yukoners this year.
Read the full article in the Yukon News.
By Editor, on January 25th, 2012 USCG Press Release
JUNEAU, Alaska — Coast Guard Air Station Kodiak MH-60 Jayhawk helicopter crews rescued 11 fishermen from two different vessels near Kodiak Wednesday morning. Read more->
By Roger Maynard, on January 25th, 2012  Overall winners, left to right: Randy Martin #3, Craig Hill #2, Jarrid Davy #1. Photo courtesy of Karen Hess. Saturday’s Alcan 200 snowmachine road rally on the Haines Highway from the Canadian border to Dezadeash and return was won by Jarrid Davy of Whitehorse for the second year in a row.
According to race organizer Karen Hess, the race was fast but no new records were set, “This year there was $1,500 for the fastest local to finish and that was Chris Brooks. The money came from $1,000 Mary Miles in memory of Dennis, $200 Fogcutter Bar & $300 Howser’s IGA. The odd thing is that he won because he wasn’t the fastest but the only local to finish. There were two locals and Jack Smith Jr. didn’t finish, so the money went to Chris. Chris also got the RED LANTERN AWARD, for the last racer to finish the race in 2:46:10, with an average speed of 56.”
Overall winners:
Jarrid Davy 1st overall / Whitehorse / Time 1:18:11 / avg. speed 119.
Craig Hill 2nd overall / Fairbanks / Time 1:21:08 / avg speed 114.6
Randy Martin 3rd overall / Fairbanks / Time 1:31:10 / avg speed 102.
Read more->
By Editor, on January 10th, 2012 by Doug O’Harra | ALASKA DISPATCH
ANCHORAGE–Alaska just experienced its third warmest December on record, with temperatures averaging about 8.7 degrees Fahrenheit above normal, according to the latest analysis posted by the National Climate Data Center. At the same time, the state was splattered with the fifth “wettest” December – most of that precipitation piling up in big white drifts that blocked on-street parking and choked residential streets to single lanes.
Alaska’s weird warm-wet month was so unsettling, the climate agency listed it as one of the month’s most significant weather events in the nation.
Read full story in the Alaska Dispatch.
By Editor, on January 10th, 2012 By Charlie Bermant | PENINSULA DAILY NEWS
PORT TOWNSEND, WA—An explosion aboard a 56-foot commercial fishing vessel docked in Boat Haven on Monday morning shook local windows and rattled walls but caused no injuries or damages to the adjacent boats— which included the Coast Guard cutter Osprey.
Read full story in the Peninsula Daily News.
By Editor, on December 29th, 2011 By Kimberly Nicoletti | SUMMIT DAILY NEWS
While some participants on reality shows accuse producers of cutting and slicing minute pieces in such a cutthroat way as to make the final cut overly dramatic, the Andersons say TLC didn’t have to do that: Their life is that dramatic.
Thursday, TLC premieres the Breckenridge family’s real-life commercial fishing business in Alaska, and the family admits TLC didn’t have to manipulate its “characters” to deliver a compelling seven-week series that depicts the extreme highs and lows of commercial fishing in Alaska — and some of the tense family dynamics accompanying the Anderson’s family business.
Read full article in the Summit Daily News.
By Editor, on November 21st, 2011 by Ned Rozell / Alaska Science Forum
FAIRBANKS – For many Alaskans, January 1989 is a month that still numbs the mind, because of the cold snap that gripped much of the state for two weeks. In Fairbanks, fan belts under the hoods of cars snapped like pretzels; the ice fog was thick and smothering, and the city came as close as it ever comes to a halt, with many people opting to stay home after their vehicles succumbed to the monster cold.
Read more: Fairbanks Daily News-Miner
By Editor, on November 21st, 2011 by Becky Bohrer / ASSOCIATED PRESS
It’s not clear how much gold there is yet to be found in Alaska, partly because the state’s geology is still being learned. But what is known points to great potential across Alaska for a variety of metals, including gold, copper and platinum, said David Szumigala, a senior minerals geologist with the state.
Over the last 20 years or so, about 200 million ounces of gold have been discovered, he said, and there’s likely potential for at least a couple hundred million more. That prospect, combined with gold prices nearly quadruple what they were in 2005, about $1,720 an ounce earlier this week, is driving renewed interest in searching for gold in Alaska.
Read the full article in the Fairbanks Daily News-Miner.
By Editor, on October 20th, 2011 By William Yardley | NEW YORK TIMES
SEATTLE — The scientist in Canada got the results from a respected lab and held a news conference. The ice and bait man at a fish processor in Sitka, Alaska, heard the news on Facebook. Vardon Tremain read it in the newspaper while working on his trolling boat docked here in Salmon Bay.
More scientists in Washington started talking, and 24 hours later everyone is asking more questions. As word spread that infectious salmon anemia, a deadly virus that has devastated farmed fish in Chile, had been found for the first time in prized wild Pacific salmon, there remained much uncertainty about the finding and what its potential impact could be.
Read more in the New York Times.
By Editor, on September 21st, 2011 USCG Press Release
JUNEAU, Alaska — Members of Coast Guard Air Station Sitka, Sector Juneau and the Alaska Department of Public Safety recognized three Alaska residents for their role in the 1950 rescue of a fisherman stranded off Chichagof Island during an awards ceremony, Sept. 13, 2011.
Marie Laws, a resident of Sitka, received a Coast Guard Meritorious Public Service Award for her role in the rescue of Helvig Christensen from the wreckage of the fishing vessel Dixie near Chichagof Island on Nov. 18, 1950. She accepted the award on behalf of her sister and cousin, Betty Mork and Tom Allain, who assisted with the rescue. Laws is the only living member of the rescue party.
Read the full story at USCGnews.com.
By Roger Maynard, on September 20th, 2011  Alaska State Trooper Dispatches:
HAINES–Take cub brown bear
On 9-16-11, Gregg A. Johnson, age 60 of Haines was cited by Wildlife Troopers for taking a cub grizzly bear that was accompanied by a sow and a sibling cub. Johnson was given an arraignment date of 10-4-11 in the Haines district court. The bear was seized by AWT. A brown bear is considered a cub for the first two years of its life. Read more->
By Editor, on September 1st, 2011 By Jonathan Grass | JUNEAU EMPIRE
Black bears in residential neighborhoods aren’t exactly unheard of in Juneau. While many people stay inside when bears are about, one local woman says she had a different instinct when she saw her dog was in trouble.
Read full article in the Juneau Empire.
By Roger Maynard, on August 31st, 2011  HAINES–The Olerud family’s side-by-side Alaska Sport Shop and Olerud’s Market Center present an attractive welcome to visitors arriving in Haines by highway. The new facelift on the Market Center adds a tasteful appearance to Main Street, as well as practical amenities such as covered porches and handicap access for customers. Read more->
By Editor, on August 22nd, 2011 By Beth Bragg | ADN
A 26-pound, 11-ounce coho, caught in the Pacific Ocean by a California man earlier this week shattered one of the state’s oldest sport-fishing records. According to KINY Radio in Juneau, Steve Atkinson of Huntington Beach was fishing near Icy Strait when he hooked the record-breaker.
Read more in the Anchorage Daily News.
By Editor, on August 20th, 2011  NOAA photo By Mike Dunham | ADN
Federal officials spent the better part of Wednesday near Juneau trying to remove a buoy line from a 5-month old humpback whale.
The call came in around 9 a.m. on Wednesday, Moran said. Boats taking tourists on whale viewing trips spotted the calf and its mother in Lynn Canal near the Shrine of St. Therese, a Catholic retreat north of Juneau. A buoy bobbed between the whales and it looked as if they might be ensnarled with the line. The lab’s “large whale disentanglement team” — both scientists and non-scientific staff — was on the water by 10 a.m.
Read full story in the Anchorage Daily News.
By Roger Maynard, on August 17th, 2011  Thistles are just blooming at several locations in Haines. This would be good time to put some effort into eradication before they go to seed. Canada thistle (Cirsium arvense) is an invasive plant found throughout much of the United States and Canada. Its common name is deceptive, as it is native to Europe and was introduced to North America in the early 1600s.
Farmers have long recognized it as an aggressive weed, even in its native range. The State of Vermont legally listed Canada thistle as a noxious weed in 1795. Canada thistle is listed as a noxious weed in at least 35 states and much of Canada, and is on Alaska’s prohibited noxious weed list. Read more->
By Editor, on July 26th, 2011 By Casey Grove | ADN
A grizzly bear sow with a cub attacked a group of teenagers on a month-long survival-skills course Saturday night in the Talkeetna Mountains, causing severe injuries to two of the hikers, according to Alaska State Troopers.
Read full article in the Anchorage Daily News.
By Roger Maynard, on July 25th, 2011  A Kawasaki Mule negotiates Takshanuk Mountain Trail HAINES–When Jim Shook introduced the idea of allowing all-terrain vehicles (ATVs) on public roads at the June 14 meeting of the borough assembly, there was surprisingly little opposition. A few raised eyebrows maybe, but then, on reflection, acceptance that the idea just might be a good fit for Haines—a small town, off the beaten track, with folks who would like to conserve fuel by driving something more economical than a full-size car or pickup to haul a few groceries from the store, only a mile or two away. What could be wrong with that?
Now, four weeks later, proponents of the ordinance are starting to see some opposition. The proposed ordinance (Ordinance 11-06-269) is on the borough assembly’s calendar for its second (and final) reading at the Tuesday, 7/26 meeting. Read more->
By Editor, on July 21st, 2011  Read full story in the Redoubt Reporter By Jenny Neyman | REDOUBT REPORTER
GANES CREEK–July 1 was the last day of Tom Cooper’s trip to Ganes Creek this year. He’d stayed in the field until 11:30 p.m. the night before, determined not to go back to camp empty-handed for the day, and finding only a ladybug-sized flake for his 14-plus hours in the field…
…Gold prices have been leapfrogging since 2006, with new highs set and soon surpassed. In June, the spot price for gold reached a record $1,549 per ounce. At that price, Cooper’s nugget is worth $16,481. But larger nuggets sell for more, and Cooper has been told his could fetch as much as $25,000 to $30,000.
Read the full story in the Redoubt Reporter.
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