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Alaska: ADF&G
Commissioner Candidates Selected for Interviews - The Joint
Board of Fisheries and Game's Commissioner Selection Committee
has selected candidates to interview for the position of Commissioner
of the Alaska Department of Fish and Game. - More...
Wednesday - February 16, 2005
Alaska: Canine
who helped inspire Iditarod is back in Alaska - He was a
nothing dog. Maybe less than nothing, stuffed and mounted without
a name and a history. A handsome white Siberian husky reduced
to a curio in a roadside theme park in upstate New York.
When auctioned off last fall
with other amusement-park items, he was called "Alaskan
Husky Dog Mount in Glass Case."
But one person knew his name
and his story, a heroic tale from across the decades.
The stuffed dog languishing
in New York was Fritz, a key member of Leonhard Seppala's team
that relayed serum for a diphtheria-ravaged Nome in 1925, the
"great race for mercy" that inspired creation of the
Iditarod Trail Sled Dog Race.
Fritz also was an important
early sire for the Siberian husky line registered by the American
Kennel Club.
Natalie Norris of Willow, member
of a pioneer mushing family that helped launch the Fur Rendezvous
sled dog races, brought Fritz back into the sunlight last month.
Fritz, who left Alaska a champion racer in 1926, is back in Nome.
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Wednesday - February 16, 2005
Alaska: University
Land Grant and Forest Bill, HB 130, needs some work; Resources
Committee Will Work on Revisions - As he said at its introduction,
Alaska House of Representatives' Resources Committee Co-Chair
Jay Ramras (R-Fairbanks) has decided that the University Land
Grant and Forest Bill, HB 130, needs some work.
"We have listened to and
received verbal and written testimony in regard to the language
and the locations of the proposed transfers. From that testimony,
I have discussed many of the issues with both the Department
of Natural Resources and the University, and we have agreed to
go back and take a closer look at the overall plan before reopening
public testimony," Representative Ramras said Tuesday. -
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Wednesday - February 16, 2005
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