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 […]
A 34-year-old Lower Kalskag woman succumbed to serious injuries after a four-wheeler accident in Upper Kalskag on Saturday afternoon, the trooper dispatch reported Monday. A trooper investigation into the four-wheeler accident would reveal that 34-year-old Merna Spein was driving a 2008 Honda four-wheeler when she lost control of the vehicle. As a result, the four-wheeler […]
