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February 17, 2004
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Pictured are some of the members of the Ketchikan Masters Swim Club. From Left to right: Amanda Welsh; Dawn Allen-Herron; Angie Taggart; Norm Herron; Fred Jorgensen; Laurie Elberson; Scott Cornelius and son; Bill Elberson and Chris Wilhelm... Front Page Photo Courtesy Chris Wilhelm Ketchikan: 2004 Alaska Masters Short Course Yards Swim Meet Held In Anchorage - The Ketchikan Masters Swim Club traveled to Anchorage to participate in the 2004 Alaska Masters Short Course Yards swim meet held at the Bartlett High School pool. The Ketchikan team made a respectable showing and Fred Jorgensen posted two new state
Tuesday - February 17, 2004 - 12:55 am
Of particular note at this
year's address was that Senator Stevens' son, Senator Ben Stevens,
President Pro Tempore of the Alaska State Senate presided over
the joint session of the Alaska State Legislature. - More... Science: Global warming to squeeze western mountains dry by 2050; Global warming will diminish the amount of water stored as snow in the Western United States by up to 70 percent - Global warming will diminish the amount of water stored as snow in the Western United States by up to 70 percent in the coastal mountains over the next 50 years, according to a new climate change model released in Seattle Monday. The reduction in Western mountain
snow cover, from the Sierra Nevada range that feeds California
in the south to the snowcapped volcanic peaks of the Cascades
in the Pacific Northwest, will lead to increased fall and winter
flooding, severe spring and summer drought that will play havoc
with the West's agriculture, fisheries and hydropower industry.
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Alaska:
Alaska: Norton Announces Proposal To List Southwest Alaska Sea Otters As "Threatened" Under Endangered Species Act - Interior Secretary Gale Norton announced last week the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service is proposing to list sea otters in Southwest Alaska as threatened under the Endangered Species Act because of a precipitous decline in their population in recent years. "Almost half the world's
sea otters used to live in Southwest Alaska, but we've seen as
much as a 68 percent drop in their numbers since the mid-1980s,"
Norton said. "No one is certain yet what is causing this,
but listing this population as threatened under the Endangered
Species Act will be an important step in discovering the reasons
and reversing the decline." - More... |
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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