- Abandoned Cold War Radar Stations in Alaska
On windy, cold nights a few decades ago, men in darkened rooms north of the Arctic Circle spent their evenings watching radar screens
- Ghost towns scattered across Alaska map - Geophysical Institute
There are at least 100 abandoned settlements in Alaska That's the number Beth Mikow figured as she wrote her master's thesis for UAF in 2010 Mikow, who now works for the Alaska Department of Fish and Game as a subsistence specialist, counted deserted Alaska places as part of her look at how the state changed since it became part of America
- Rock redwoods in Sutton, stone bird tracks in Denali
A few years ago, Chris Williams found a big tree on the grounds of an abandoned coal mine in Sutton, Alaska It was six feet in diameter, stood more than 110 feet above the surrounding swamplands, and loved warm weather and steamy rain showers The tree, a dawn redwood, died of unknown causes about 55 million years ago
- When Reindeer Paradise Turned to Purgatory - Geophysical Institute
During World War II, while trying to stock a remote island in the Bering Sea with an emergency food source, the U S
- Ghost ship artifacts emerge in museum | Geophysical Institute
The captain and crew abandoned the ship, which carried furs from Canadian trappers and a variety of other cargo Following the ice's capture of the Baychimo, the captain and 14 men built a wooden hut on the sea ice to keep track of the ship One month later, they weathered a great windstorm in that shelter
- The Coldest Place in North America - Geophysical Institute
On January 23, 1971, weather observers at Prospect Creek, a pipeline camp 25 miles southeast of Bettles, recorded Alaska's all-time low of 80 below zero The temperature at Snag was unavailable; Canadians had abandoned the airstrip in 1967
- Giant Chinese Dam May Cause Earth to Move | Geophysical Institute
As the water rises, it will drown more than 1,400 rural towns and villages abandoned earlier by government decree The water rising behind the dam will power 26 huge turbines to provide electricity, and will allow people to control a river that has killed 300,000 people by flooding during the 20th century
- Bitter weather may have wiped out reindeer | Geophysical Institute
Biologist Dave Klein first stepped on the island in 1957, 13 years after the Coast Guard had abandoned it Klein, 82, now a professor emeritus for the University of Alaska Fairbanks’ Institute of Arctic Biology, hiked the length of the island with field assistant Jim Whisenhant in 1957
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