Check this out; sometimes, in Alaska, you have to be careful just going to the post office:This was a cow and her yearling calf. I managed to skirt around them and do in the post office’s side door, and around front,…
Graphite is used in lots of things, ranging from dry lubricants to foundry facings, from electrodes to batteries, as a moderator in nuclear reactors, and for making carbon-fiber materials for sports equipment,…
It's final: On Thursday, Secretary of the Interior Doug Burgum announced that Alaska's Arctic National Wildlife Refuge (ANWR) will be the site of at least four oil-drilling leases in the next few years. But,…
You can always tell when winter is closing in – the whole valley smells of woodsmoke. If there’s anyone around here who doesn’t have a stack of firewood and a wood stove in their house, I don’t know who it is. …
We take the Aurora Borealis - the northern lights - for granted here in Alaska. We see them all the time in the darker half of the year; charged particles from the sun cause these amazing light shows, specifically when…
We’re getting snow showers this week. It’s a little late for the first snow; we often have some on the ground by now. We did get about an inch of white stuff Saturday night, but the ground is still warm enough that it…
President Trump is unlocking America's treasure chest. Alaska is open for business, and now in addition to all his other moves, President Trump has opened up the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge, or ANWR, for…
On the 10th and 11th of October, last week, as this is written, the remnants of the Pacific Typhoon Halong slammed into western Alaska. Hardest hit was the Kuskokwim River delta, where people are still being evacuated.…
Secretary of Homeland Security Kristi Noem's recorded TSA message, which lays the blame for the ongoing Schumer shutdown squarely on Democrats (which is, in all candor, where it belongs), has been the hot topic de…
Last week we went to Valdez, a place we had not yet visited. There’s a lot of land to cover in Alaska, and a lot of places to see; we’re just starting out. We want to see Chicken, drive over to Dawson City in the…
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