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February 06, 2004
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Alaska: Resolution
Introduced To Constitutionally Protect The Permanent Fund Dividend
- Republican Senators Scott Ogan, Lyda Green and Tom Wagoner
of the Alaska State Legislature introduced SJR
24 Thursday, a resolution to constitutionally protect the
permanent fund dividend. -
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more... Alaska: Democrats,
Former State Revenue Official, Call for End To Unjustified Oil
Tax Breaks; Former Governors Hammond and Hickel say 1989 tax
breaks need to be re-examined - Thursday Democratic Representatives
Les Gara, Eric Croft, Beth Kerttula and David Guttenberg filed
legislation which they say wil help Alaskans recover a fair share
for their oil. Former Governors Jay Hammond and Wally Hickel
also stated this week that it is time to review the fairness
of oil tax exemptions contained in a 1989 law known as "the
ELF", or Economic Limit Factor (Hammond's full statement
follows). Former Deputy Commissioner of Revenue Deborah Vogt,
who supports the bill, said "the proposal is well thought
out, and long overdue."- Read
more... Alaska: February
6th Ronald Reagan Day - Alaska will celebrate Ronald Reagan
Day today, on the President's 93 birthday. - Read
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Alaska: Governor Proposes Alaska Veterans Home - Thursday Governor Frank Murkowski introduced a bill that designates a home in the Alaska Pioneer Home system as a state Veterans Home. The bill also enables the State of Alaska to access Veterans Benefits, Medicaid, and other sources to fund the Alaska Pioneer Home system. "Taken together, these actions serve Alaska veterans and help sustain the Pioneer Home system and the Alaska Veterans Home for future years," Murkowski said. The Governor has endorsed the
selection of the Palmer Pioneers Home for conversion to a state
Veterans Home. Today, he introduced legislation to address the
legal requirements to establish an Alaska Veterans Home that
meets the requirements of the federal Veterans Administration.
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Alaska: When Biologists Stocked Alaska with Wolves - The killing of wolves to boost moose and caribou populations in Alaska is making headlines all over the country. Back in 1960, a government program to stock an Alaska island with wolves received less attention. Alaska had been a state for one year when its department of fish and game conducted a wolf-planting experiment on Coronation Island in southeast Alaska. At the time, the remote 45-square-mile island exposed to the open Pacific had a high density of blacktailed deer and no wolves. In 1960, biologists from Fish and Game released two pairs of wolves on the island. The experiment was the only wolf-stocking effort undertaken in Alaska and probably the whole world at that time, said Dave Klein, a professor emeritus with the University of Alaska's Institute of Arctic Biology. Klein, who had studied deer on the island for his PhD thesis, helped the state make the decision to introduce wolves to Coronation Island. "Alaska had just become a state and you had a brand new department of fish and game staffed with young biologists who wanted to do things based on biology rather than a mix of politics and science. It'd be much more difficult to do it now." In 1960, Fish and Game biologists
released two male and two female wolves at Egg Harbor on Coronation
Island. Before they left, the researchers shot five deer to provide
food for the wolves. - Read
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And the heroine who survived it There is a desolate island
in the Chukchi Sea on the frigid top of the planet. It is 83
miles north of the coast of Siberia and it is named Wrangel Island
- Wrangel with one L. It is roughly kidney-shaped and said to
be about 80 miles long and 18 to 30 miles across, with a cluster
of low mountains at its center. During the warmth of its very
brief summer, rivers flow north and south over rolling tundra
to the sea. Along the frosty riverbanks are buried the bones
of a race of woolly mammoths, evidence of dwarfed survivors of
a larger race of Russian Steppe mammoths of perhaps 20,000 or
30,000 years ago. The island today is inhabited by a tiny Russian-Eskimo
settlement and is largely visited by polar bears, seals, foxes,
ducks and geese and the occasional scientist from around the
world. - Read
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