Talent, OR and Falmouth, MA –Scientists from Wild Heritage and Woodwell Climate Research Center used the latest data on carbon stored in forests to document the importance of the Tongass rainforest in southeast Alaska as a natural climate solution. This single 16.5 million-acre national forest, the largest of the national forests, stores approximately 20% of […]
These pups—often seen alone onshore—are not abandoned. Seal Pupping Season Begins! NOAA’s Alaska Region has already received reports that harbor seal pups have arrived! Pupping season is typically between May and July, but each year a few pups arrive earlier. During the pupping and nursing season, mother harbor seals will leave their pups on shore […]
Alaska State Troopers responded to mile 68 of the Parks Highway near Willow after receiving a call reporting a two vehicle collision at that location at 5:47 am on Monday morning, troopers teport. Alaska State Troopers, local fire and EMS immediately responded and located the two vehicles, an Acura and a Chevy pickup and found […]
JOINT BASE ELMENDORF-RICHARDSON, Alaska — The Alaska National Guard’s Counterdrug Support Program, a joint unit of Air and Army National Guardsmen, supports and partners with the state’s Office of Substance Misuse and Addiction Prevention in addressing a rising trend of opioid overdoses in the state of Alaska. With the initiative Project HOPE, the abbreviated form […]