Friday
August 06, 2004
U.S. Fish and Wildlife
Service biologists Mark Bertram, left, and Jim Akaran wear respirators
while working at Burman Lake in Yukon Flats National Wildlife
Refuge.
Photo courtesy of Mark Bertram, USFW Service
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Alaska: Smoked
pike on menu for Yukon Flats scientists by Ned Rozell - People
in Alaska's interior inhaled more wildfire smoke than normal
in summer of 2004. Mark Bertram and Jim Akaran ate more pike
than normal, too.
Bertram and Akaran are biologists
for the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service who work for Yukon Flats
National Wildlife Refuge in northern Alaska. During interior
Alaska's recent bout of thick smoke, they were stuck on a remote
lake for nearly twice the time they had planned because smoke
in Fairbanks was too thick for their pilot to retrieve them.
Bad weather often prevents timely pick-ups and drop-offs in remote
Alaska locations, but this was the first time either biologist
had his rations stretched thin by smoke. - Read
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Friday - August 06, 2004
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Former Ketchikan resident
Lois Whitesides poses with her children: Myrna, Dale, and daughter
Lois
Photo by Byron Whitesides ©2004
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 Ketchikan:
Whitesides
Celebrates 100th Birthday Saturday - Former Ketchikan resident
Lois Whitesides will be celebrating her 100th birthday on Saturday,
August 7th in Medford, Oregon. Birthdays are always special days,
and Lois will celebrate her 100th birthday with family and friends.
For many years Lois and her
late husband, Frank, resided in Ketchikan. They were the owners
of Y&W Garage which was located on Stedman Street. Lois and
Frank had intended to make Ketchikan their life long home. However,
after Frank passed away in the late 1950's, Lois later moved
from Ketchikan. - Read
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Friday - August 06, 2004
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Alaska: New
regulation requires Dall sheep horns be sealed after hunt - Most
Dall sheep hunters this year need to comply with a new regulation
requiring that the horns be sealed after the hunt. The horns
of rams taken in units where a horn size restriction is in place
must be sealed. Horns of sheep taken in units where any sheep
is legal do not have to be sealed. - Read
more...
Friday - August 06, 2004
Alaska: Sitka
Pioneers' Home to house Mt. Edgecumbe honor students; Home had
available rooms, students will stay until new school dormitory
is completed - The Sitka Pioneers' Home, in the Division
of Alaska Pioneer Homes, Alaska Department of Health and Social
Services, signed a Memorandum of Agreement (MOA) July 30 with
Mt. Edgecumbe High School (MEHS) to house 30 honor students during
the upcoming school year. Because the Sitka Pioneers' Home is
not at full capacity and currently has no active waiting list,
using the home for temporary housing for Mt. Edgecumbe students
will not impact the Sitka Pioneers' Home services. No current
resident will be asked to move from the home, and no services
for prospective residents will be delayed. - Read
more...
Friday - August 06, 2004
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