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The Alaska State Fair
(Tue, 05 Aug 2008 12:22:01 PST)  The Alaska State Fair is held at the Palmer Fairgounds each fall in the beautiful Matanuska Valley. Over 300,000 visitors show up to see lush flower gardens, record-setting giant vegetables and musical entertainment.

Hatcher Pass
(Tue, 05 Aug 2008 12:18:01 PST)  Hatcher Pass is a beautiful recreation area 3886 feet up in the Talkeetna Mountains of Alaska. It's a popular place for skiing, snowmobiling, camping, hunting, white-water kayaking, berry-picking, parapenting, climbing, recreational gold-mining, mountain biking ans especially hiking.

The Alaska Highway - An Adventure Any Time Of The Year
(Thu, 05 Jun 2008 11:02:03 PST)  Before you start planning your trip down the Alaska Highway, get "The Milepost". It is an invaluable 768 page book that documents the entire trip including every gas station and motel along the way. The Alaska Highway (also called the ALCAN Highway) is a long 1,390 mile (2,237 km) road stretching from Delta Junction, Alaska at its northwestern end to Dawson Creek, British Columbia, Canada at its southeastern end.

It's berry picking season here in Alaska
(Tue, 04 Sep 2007 15:06:05 PST)  Berry picking brings out Alaskans in droves to their favorite spots. In Alaska there are plenty of berries to go around and you can pick all you want. Blueberries are at their peak.

News of Alaska animals-large and small
(Tue, 10 April 2007 17:09:07 PST)  Ants-Ken Philip says ants aren't really the muscle-bound insects people trump them up to be. And he should know. Philip and his helpers have built up a vast collection of northern butterflies that will someday belong to the Smithsonian Institution.

Bowhead Whales May Be the World's Oldest Mammals
(Mon, 26 March 2007 15:49:07 PST)  While helping Alaska Native whale hunter Billy Adams cut sections of blubber from a , Biologist Craig George pressed his knife into a deep scar in the whale's skin.

Alaska scientists aim at offering climate services
(Mon, 06 March 2007 15:49:07 PST)  Seasons are not what they once were in Alaska. Ice roads on Alaska's North Slope have a shorter lifespan than they had 30 years ago. The extent of sea ice hugging the northern coastlines gets smaller every year. These changes affect Alaskans and people who work in Alaska, and a few scientists just received funding to make climate science user-friendly for those people.

Alaska a hot topic in San Francisco
(Fri, 12 Jan 2007 12:21:01 PST)  While trolling the poster sessions at the Moscone Center in San Francisco during the American Geophysical Union Fall Meeting (attended by more than 13,000 scientists), a person bumps into a great deal of information on Alaska.

Chinook had Alaskans dreaming of green Christmas
(Wed, 20 Dec 2006 18:31:01 PST)  On December 8, 2006, in the middle of Alaska, the air temperature on the roof of the Geophysical Institute at the University of Alaska Fairbanks 37 degrees Fahrenheit. The normal high temperature for this date is 5 degrees. A chinook wind is blowing over Alaska.

Burned Alaska may cause more burned Alaska
(Thu, 07 Dec 2006 07:13:01 PST)  The blackened scars that Alaska fires leave on the landscape may result in more lightning, more rain in some areas just downwind of the scars, and less rain farther away.

Alaska Trees - Our newest page added
(Thu, 30 Nov 2006 18:41:01 PST)  Alaska trees with pictures and descriptions.

Biological clock turned back in western Aleutians of Alaska
(Tue, 28 Nov 2006 16:53:01 PST)  There aren't many places left in the world where animals make a comeback after they've disappeared, but an island in the western Aleutians may be a pleasant exception.

Reports of frog's death were greatly exaggerated
(Fri, 24 Nov 2006 21:55:01 PST)  Things didn't look good for the five frozen wood frogs....The temperature at frog level, under a few inches of snow and moss, had dipped to 10 degrees Fahrenheit in December.

When The Aurora Clashes With Cabs
(Sat, 04 Nov 2006 05:50:01 PST)  As one of the aurora forecasters at the Geophysical Institute located on the University of Alaska Fairbanks campus, Charles Deehr has emailed people around the world who want to know when the northern lights will appear above their heads.

Salmon nose deep into Alaska ecosystems
(Sun, 01 Oct 2006 06:38:01 PST)  During a good year in Bristol Bay, a surge of more than 100 million pounds of sockeye salmon fights its way uPSTream, spawns, and dies.

What Causes the Aurora Borealis?
(Thu, 07 Sep 2006 09:14:03 PST)  During the early 19th century, some of the best scientific minds of the period believed that the aurora was caused by the reflection of sunlight from tiny ice crystals suspended high in the atmosphere. It remained for the Norwegian physicist Anders Angstrom to prove that this could not be true.

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