A Sterling fire, dubbed the Card Street Fire has grown to approximately 1,200 acres by late Monday evening. The fire, first ignited as a grass fire was reported as a one acre fire by Alaska State Troopers at 1:52 pm on Monday afternoon. But, the blaze grew to four acres by the time firefighters could […]
Fire officials tracking the Sockeye fire have estimated the size of the blaze at 7,585 acres they have said on the Mat-Su Borough page on early Tuesday. They also announced that the Type I Alaska Interagency Incident Management Team will take command of the fire at 7 am this morning. Although, they say the Parks […]
A two-acre fire in the Willow area north of Anchorage that was first reported on Sunday afternoon has grown tremendously in size and is now an estimated 6,500 acres on Monday. The blaze has been dubbed the Sockeye Fire, named after the avenue in Willow where the fire was initially sparked. The fire was human-caused, […]
Alaskans from across the state—from Nome to Metlakatla to Kodiak, and everywhere in between—submitted more than one-thousand haikus all about the places salmon live! Judging was tough, but the Salmon Project was thrilled to announce the winners of the 2015 Salmon Habitat Haiku Contest: First Place Margie Schwartz, Salcha Fishwheel in the fog Creaking as […]