Monday
April 11, 2005
'Canadian
Coast Guard'
Front Page Photo by Lisa Thompson
Ketchikan: Schulte
to Offer National Science Foundation Chautaugua Course -
Professor of Anthropology and Sociology Dr. Priscilla Schulte
has been invited to teach a course as part of the 2005 National
Chautaugua Short Course Program. The program is geared towards
college teachers around the nation and is part of the Faculty
Development Program of the University of Pittsburgh, Council
of Chautauqua Field Centers which is supported by the National
Science Foundation Division of Undergraduate Education. - More...
Monday - April 11, 2005
Ketchikan: Summer
Registration Opens at University of AK Southeast Ketchikan
- Summer course registration opens on Monday, April 11 at the
University of Alaska Southeast Ketchikan Campus. Summer courses
begin May 13 but starting dates may vary depending on the length
of the class. Early registration is encouraged as classes fill
quickly. - More...
Monday - April 11, 2005
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An ice jam in the lower
Yukon backed the river into the village of Russian Mission in
1989. Floodwaters remained in the village for one week, when
the only way in or out was by helicopter. Photo by Larry Rundquist,
Alaska-Pacific River Forecast Center.
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Alaska: Spring
breakup milder in recent years by Ned Rozell - Spring breakup
just ain't what it used to be, according to a long-time hydrologist
at the Alaska-Pacific River Forecast Center in Anchorage.
Larry Rundquist has helped
forecast the transition of Alaska's rivers from solid ice to
liquid water for the past 18 years. The change can be damaging
for villages as large pulses of snowmelt hit river channels or
huge chunks of ice form dams that back rivers up, but the past
few breakups have been mild ones.
"For the first decade
that I worked here, we had watches or warnings for flooding going
on at several locations every day for two or three weeks as the
Yukon and Kuskokwim rivers were going out," Rundquist said.
"It was a given we'd have flooding somewhere. The only question
was how much damage would be done to villages."
"In the last decade, there's
almost been a complete reversal," he said. "The number
of threats due to ice jamming and snowmelt have reduced to the
point where during one year we put out no flood (warnings or
watches) and several years we've put out just a handful."
- More...
Monday - April 11, 2005
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Stone projectile points
recovered from
On Your Knees Cave excavations.
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Southeast Alaska: On
Your Knees Cave; April is Alaska Archeology Month - Since
its discovery in 1993 during planning for a proposed timber sale,
the paleontological and archaeological site called On Your Knees
Cave has yielded a wealth of information about the ecology and
early human occupation of southeast Alaska.
Those discoveries included
the bones of black and brown bear dated to over 40,000 years
ago as well as lemming, heather vole, marmot, ringed seal and
other species that no longer live on Prince of Wales Island.
This innocuous little cave,
500 feet above modern sea level gave us clues of the environment
from before, during, and after the last Ice Age and told us that
these islands were not completely covered by ice at the last
glacial maximum as scientists had long believed. - More...
Monday - April 11, 2005
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June Allen Column
 Alaskan
Chris Leding: 1886-1976; A Norwegian adventurer - By June
Allen - Today's Ketchikan phone book includes a fair share of
Scandinavian surnames. There are, however, relatively few Norse
names among the records of the town's earliest settlers. Most
of Ketchikan's Norwegian population originated later, during
the early 1920s when the halibut fleet, its skippers, crewmen
and families moved north from the Seattle area. An exception
was the late Chris Leding, who wasn't yet a fisherman when
he settled down in Ketchikan the mid-1920s and who discovered
commercial fishing much later in life. - More...
Thursday - April 07, 2005
 A
Personal Tribute to Tom Coyne on St. Patrick's Day
It's
Iditarod Race Year 33! a ghost story of the southern route
Ketchikan's
'Rotary Wheel' Still Turning; Hardworking club celebrates a century
Sitka's
Pioneer Home Statue; Whose face is cast in bronze?
L.
Ron Hubbard's Alaska Adventure; His long winter in Ketchikan
ACS
Bids for KPU Telecom: ACS a longtime presence
Betty
King the Dog Lady; Ketchikan's one-woman humane society
Ketchikan,
Alaska - Let There Be Light! -- Citizens Light & Power and
then KPU
The
State Capitol and Its Marble and keeping the capital in Juneau
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