In early March up on the frozen Arctic Coastal Plain, as the wind sculpts snow into drifts, it’s hard to tell northern lakes from surrounding tundra. But lurking deep beneath that flat white world are toothy predators as long as your arm. In pools 60 feet down, lake trout are somehow passing the long winter. […]
“Punxsutawney Phil,” the famous Groundhog Day rodent, exited his cozy tree stump that he calls home and promptly saw his shadow, signifying six more weeks of winter for North America. Emerging from his temporary home on Gobbler’s Knob, and surrounded by the Top Hatted and Tuxedo-clad “inner circle’ that is his handlers, he was […]
Hello old friend. I thought you were dead. Sorry, but remember last year, when you didn’t show up? It was the first recorded winter in Fairbanks when the thermometer at the airport didn’t register minus 30 Fahrenheit. I didn’t know what to think. But here you are, a blob straight from the North Pole, squatting […]
Survivor Day: International Survivors of Suicide Loss Day | November 19 November 19 is International Survivors of Suicide Loss Day—a day when people who’ve lost a loved one to suicide come together. The American Foundation for Suicide Prevention invites you to join a 90-minute online program including a screening of the documentary Life Journeys: Reclaiming Life after Loss, […]