Skip Ambrose has floated the upper Yukon River almost every year since Richard Nixon was President. Back then, in 1973, only 12 pairs of peregrine falcons perched at nest sites over a 180-mile stretch of river. Ambrose saw that number rise to more than 60 in 2012. The birds’ subsequent rebound from the effects of […]
Human footprints preserved in mud at White Sands National Park in New Mexico suggest that humans arrived there — possibly via Alaska — at least 21,000 years ago. No one alive today knows how people got that deep into North America from Asia so long ago. But a team of scientists has proposed winter sea […]
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 […]
JUNEAU, Alaska — The size of Alaska’s population remained essentially unchanged for a second consecutive year, based on population estimates released last week by the Alaska Department of Labor and Workforce Development. From July 2022 to July 2023, the state grew by an estimated 304 people — 0.04 percent. Despite that slight overall growth, Alaska […]