All lanes on the Seward Highway are currently open following snarls that closed down northbound traffic and slowed southbound traffic to a crawl as motorists were subject to pilot cars that lead them through the McHugh Creek fire area on Tuesday. On Tuesday, the fire that raged just south of Anchorage, expanded quickly in size […]
I once wrote about how fire had ravaged more than 10 percent of Interior Alaska during two smoky summers. A wildlife biologist called me out for choosing an inadequate verb. Tom Paragi chooses words that are more positive when he looks at a burned forest. Paragi works with the Alaska Department of Fish and Game […]
Alberta (Reuters) – A massive wildfire around the oil sands hub of Fort McMurray, Alberta, moved toward energy production facilities on Tuesday, extending a shutdown that has led to lost Canadian output of one million barrels a day. The fire jumped a critical firebreak area where plants and trees had been removed to stop its […]
Eight summers ago, a bolt of lightning struck a dry tundra hillside in northern Alaska. Fanned by a warm wind that curled over the Brooks Range, the Anaktuvuk River fire burned for three months, leaving a scar visible from the International Space Station. The charred area was larger than Cape Cod. While northern Alaska’s treeless […]