FAIRBANKS, Alaska – Overnight the weather stations in the area of the McDonald Fire received a half inch of rain. This, along with the precipitation and cool temperatures on Friday, moderated fire behavior and there was minimal perimeter growth. Saturday, Idaho Team 1 IMT 3 shadowed the BLM Alaska Fire Service Type 3 organization to prepare […]
The “second American Revolution” now underway will “remain bloodless,” said the president of the right-wing Heritage Foundation, “if the left allows it to be.” The president of the right-wing group spearheading Project 2025 raised the specter of violence Tuesday against those who refuse to capitulate to what he characterized as “the second American Revolution” ushered in by […]
In July of 1776, sweltering in the summer heat of Philadelphia, fifty-six men from thirteen different colonies boldly signed their names to a document giving birth to the noblest experiment in mankind’s history. Two hundred forty-eight years later, we celebrate the continuation of that experiment, enjoying the liberties and prosperity that followed that signing. While […]
Tlingit & Haida strongly opposes the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration’s (NOAA) determination to further consider the Wild Fish Conservancy’s petition to list Gulf of Alaska (GOA) king salmon as an endangered or threatened species under the Endangered Species Act (ESA). In January of 2024, the Wild Fish Conservancy (WFC), a Washington state-based conservation group, […]