Alaska State Troopers assigned to the Bureau of Highway Patrol, Patrol, and Wildlife responded to Manmade Lake in reference to a disturbance call at 7:14 pm on Tuesday evening. The response resulted in one arrest troopers say. Once at the lake, troopers opened an investigation that found 18-year-old Brandon Bahr had gotten into a confrontation […]
Authorities continue to search for two overdue snowmachiners in the Selawik area for the third day according to AST. At 6:20 pm on Sunday, Selawik residents 41-year-old Selawik resident Timothy Snyder and 20-year-old Selawik resident Jane Kaiser were reported overdue by the Northwest Arctic Borough Search and Rescue Coordinator. According to the AST dispatch, Snyder […]
(Anchorage, AK) – Tuesday, the state of Alaska sued the federal government for title to submerged lands, in Juneau, under Mendenhall Lake and Mendenhall River. State ownership of Mendenhall Lake and River was granted at statehood, yet has not been recognized by the federal government, despite repeated attempts at clearing the title by the State. The lawsuit (481KB […]
“Lakes seem, on the scale of years or of human life spans, permanent features of landscapes, but they are geologically transitory, usually born of catastrophes, to mature and die quietly.” — George Evelyn Hutchinson, “A Treatise on Limnology,” 1957. Harry Potter Lake did not die quietly. Water in the basin on Alaska’s North Slope cut […]