A new series of ethnobotany films produced by filmmaker Sarah Betcher explores traditional Alaskan indigenous uses of wild plants for food, medicine and construction materials. The “Ties to Alaska’s Wild Plants” project was funded by a grant from the National Science Foundation to Betcher and principle investigator Steffi Ickert-Bond, the Herbarium curator at the University […]
When botanist Janet Jorgenson first visited a patch of tundra east of Kaktovik in 1988, it was flat, dry and thick with 29 species of lichens and mosses. Now, Tapkaurak is wet, gullied and fragrant with sedges and grasses. And, like other parts of Alaska’s North Slope, it is a few feet farther from the […]
Alaska State troopers state that charges are pending against a third member of a burglar trio in Nikiski after his two partners were arrested in a burglary incident on Sunday. It was on Sunday night at 10:14 PM, that “a 27-year old male of Nikiski called 911 reporting someone was in his parent’s residence off Island Lake […]
Alaska State Troopers reported Thursday that search warrants, issued after the May 1 contact with a Kenai driver and his passenger, resulted in further drug and weapons charges. On May 1, 25-year-old Justin Vinzant of Kenai, and his passenger, 34-year-old Dalton Cullen of Soldotna were pulled over in a traffic stop by troopers near Alex Drive […]