DEADHORSE, Alaska) — The Alaska Department of Transportation and Public Facilities (ADOT&PF) increased commercial traffic Tuesday through Miles 395-405 Dalton Highway. Tuesday, 204 vehicles total transited the flooded section of highway. This total includes northbound and southbound traffic. Convoys of up to 50 commercial vehicles began transiting the flooded section of highway northbound at 8 […]
Under its own power, an earthworm gains about 30 feet of new territory each year. But that does not help explain how worms got to Alaska. “It’s almost geologically slow,” Matt Bowser, said of the earthworm’s locomotion. Bowser, Alaska’s closest thing to an expert on earthworms, is an entomologist with the Kenai National Wildlife Refuge. […]
JUNEAU—Governor Bill Walker Thursday stated his support of two recent announcements on Arctic offshore oil and gas exploration. On Tues., March 31, the U.S. Department of Interior issued a Record of Decisionaffirming Chukchi Sea OCS Oil and Gas Lease Sale 193 and the remaining oil and gas leases issued in 2008 as a result of […]
U.S. Sen. Lisa Murkowski, R-Alaska, criticized the Obama administration’s lack of consultation with Alaska in developing its draft 2017-2022 outer continental shelf (OCS) oil and natural gas leasing program (DPP) for Alaska in comments to the Bureau of Ocean Energy Management (BOEM). “The fact that the president’s moratorium withdrawing some 9.8 million acres of waters […]