Kennecott has been spruced up quite a bit since my last visit there nearly 30 years ago. Even so, many crumbling buildings remain. Some have been shored up by the National Park Service, which now manages the site as Kennecott Mines National Historic Landmark in Wrangell-St. Elias National Park and Preserve. A few other buildings have been […]
A $300,000 grant to the University of Alaska Museum of the North will pay for exhibits centered on the abandoned bus made famous by the “Into the Wild” book and movie. The museum, part of the University of Alaska Fairbanks, received the grant from the federal Institute of Museum and Library Services. The museum will […]
Birds evolved from dinosaurs. They share a common ancestor and physical traits — some dinosaurs even had feathers. But while these dinosaurs are thought to have had “fuzzy” or “downy” feathers, ancient birds were more likely to have had feathers that look similar to the birds of today. A University of Washington-led research team has […]
When the now-extinct American cheetah was enduring the last ice age, a glaciated barrier broke up its territory into two distinct territories — one in central North America and another much farther north. Analysis from the Alaska Stable Isotope Facility at the University of Alaska Fairbanks helped an international research team uncover how the ancient […]