Iron Dog is moving forward, full steam. There was a problem when an ice fisherman drilled holes in the ice and flooded the original starting chute that had been cleared of all the snow. But Executive Director Kevin Kastner sounded pumped on Friday afternoon about the start of the festivities and race. “We’ve moved the [...]
Energy Management Trumps Fishing Habitat On Feb. 5, 2012, Representative Les Gara sends a letter to the Dept. of Natural Resources’ Commissioner urging withdrawal and reconsideration of the commissioner’s current decision to allow “dredge and destroy” 11 miles of the Chuitna River, one of Cook Inlet’s best wild salmon streams for 25 years. A [...]
On January 10, 2012, the Fairbanks AC Subcommittee will conduct a meeting in the main building of Fish and Game located at 1300 College Road at 6PM. The meeting that was previously set at the Farmhouse located in the same address was moved to the main building to give a much bigger space for the [...]
Alaska Puppy Trooper Amy Bowen, is scheduled to arrive in Anchorage, Alaska on Tuesday, January 10, 2012, after a short layover in Minneapolis, Minnesota, says Beth Ipsen, Information Officer II, with the Alaska State Troopers (AST). Eight-week-old Amy is one of a litter of six Blue Heeler mix pups that were dropped off at the [...]
The workers on the Alaska pipeline who are out in the tundra may have the one of the best chances of any Alaskans, barring the smattering of local residents who live in the northernmost regions of Alaska, of seeing one of the Snowy Owls, and of course the “Snowy Owl Research” project people, who are [...]
The $500. cash for a reward was sweetened up with the offer of an ounce of gold for information used in catching the people who killed a moose and left it to rot. The donor of the gold is a local miner. The moose, found by another hunter, was reported to the Alaska Wildlife Troopers [...]
Fans of the show “Alaska State Troopers”, have named a six-pack of puppies after their heroes on the show. The baby Blue Heeler mix puppies got dropped off at the Humane Society of Nelson County in Bardstown, Kentucky, and some of the junior volunteers with the organization are fans of the National Geographic channels trooper [...]
The gold rush is still going on in Alaska, although gold panning bent over a stream looking for that one huge gold nugget is not necessarily the way everyone goes about it now. A new gold claim in the paperwork process, by Paul & Co., based in Fairbanks, Alaska, “proposes to re-mine the historic placer [...]
On December 3, 2011, derby fans from across Alaska had witness the heart-stopping battle between Rage City Roller Girls “Devil’s Club” from Anchorage and North Pole “Babes in Toyland.” In the end, the Saturday match up resulted to a score of Devil’s Club 149 and North Pole Babes 71. The fight at the Dena’ina Center had [...]
On February 4 next year, Alaskans are expected to dash off to Chena River to commemorate the start of the 2012 Yukon Quest International Sled Dog Race. At the strike of 11Am, the competing teams will race down the 1000 miles of icy trails in dangerous Alaskan terrain between Whitehorse, Yukon and Fairbanks, Alaska. Later, on the same [...]
