On Monday, August 6th, Senator Lisa Murkowski and Senator Mary Landrieu, the chair of the Senate Homeland Security Appropriations Subcommittee, conducted a U.S. Senate Field hearing in Kodiak to discuss the needs of the United States Coast Guard as they guard and patrol Alaska's northern waters.
YAKUTAT-Yakutat Glacier, near the Alaska town of the same name and flowing from the mountains near the Canada border, calves into a lake as deep as an ocean bay.