After exploring the Pacific, Captain George Vancouver turned north into the Pacific Northwest in 1793 before setting south to the Sandwich Islands (Hawaii) to winter there before setting sail to Cook Inlet in search of the Northwest Passage. After Cook Inlet, Vancouver set south along the coastline, drawing detailed charts along the way through 1794. […]
Civil War veteran Charles Raymond was 27 when he accepted an assignment to visit the new U.S. territory of Alaska, a place so far away from his home in New York City he couldn’t imagine it. Two years after Secretary of State William Seward had brokered the purchase of Alaska from Russia, U.S. leaders suspected […]
WASHINGTON – Bidding in last week’s Cook Inlet oil and gas lease sale revealed a notable reluctance from the fossil fuel industry to pursue risky development in Alaska waters, despite insistence from Big Oil-friendly legislators that the sale was necessary. The December 30 sale was previously canceled by the Biden administration due to “a lack of […]