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Iditarod: One of the Last Gold Rush Towns

By Ned Rozell | Geophysical Institute on Apr 5, 2019 Featured, The Arctic and Alaska Science

The mushers were gone, and so were the 640 dogs that pulled them out of town. A few days earlier, the volunteers who gave life to Iditarod had climbed into their single-engine planes and lifted off the ice, carrying their noise along with them. Iditarod City was now quiet, except for the whoosh of […]

Franklin, Alaska: A Town that Once Was

By Ned Rozell | Geophysical Institute on Aug 24, 2018 Featured, Interior Alaska, The Arctic and Alaska Science

Floating down the Fortymile River, we saw a cut in the green hills that hinted of a creek. My canoeing partner and neighbor, Ian Carlson, 13, wanted to see a ghost town. The map told us one should be dead ahead. There, up a path of floury soil, was Franklin, Alaska. Like many Alaska ghost […]