Alton C Nordale, Alaska’s Territorial Legislator, and four others were returning to Fairbanks after attending Discovery Day in Dawson on August 19th, 1935, but never reached their destination. Searchers sought the aircraft, or even clues, for an extended period along the four-hour intended flight path, but as winter set in, nothing about the fate of […]
Kevin White has placed his hands on the long, white fur of more than 400 Alaska mountain goats during the past 20 years. His diligence in studying this Ice Age wanderer of high, steep country has led to a new understanding — a surprising number of the creatures die by snow avalanche. White works out […]
Mountain goats use steep, exposed terrain to avoid carnivores such as wolves, but new research reveals a significant cost of this behavior: exposure to snow avalanches. Findings from a long-term study by researchers at the University of Alaska Fairbanks and the University of Alaska Southeast with partners in Canada and Switzerland show that death from […]