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Alaska Science Forum: Feltleaf willows — Alaska’s most abundant tree
Imagine being a moose in late May: You have just survived 200 days of cold and darkness by munching the equivalent of a large garbage bag full of frozen twigs each day. Now, billions...
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UAF Group Receives Philanthropic Grant to Aid Chignik Region Communities
The community of Chignik Bay on the Alaska Peninsula. Photo by Chris Maio A University of Alaska Fairbanks coastal organization has received a $590,000 philanthropic grant to map rapidly changing watersheds...
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I Went to the Woods: Into the maze
“Into the Wild” and “The Grizzly Maze” are complex reads. To reduce Chris McCandless and Timothy Treadwell to naïve, unprepared fools who are led to their deaths by unreasonable ideology is to miss out...
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UAF scientists to hunt for clues about Arctic Ocean glaciation
Research assistant professor Louis Farquharson works at an ancient raised marine shoreline on the north shore of Teshekpuk Lake near Alaska’s Arctic Ocean coast in 2013. Photo by Ben Jones. Evidence indicates...
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Alaska Science Forum: When river breakup came to Eagle
EAGLE — As the late evening sunshine poured in from the northwest, a dozen residents of Alaska’s farthest upstream town on the Yukon River watched their winter race past in floating chunks of ice....
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When River Breakup Came to Eagle
EAGLE — As the late evening sunshine poured in from the northwest, a dozen residents of Alaska’s farthest upstream town on the Yukon River watched their winter race past in...
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Why is a moose’s nose so big?
Artist Liza McElroy of Seward, Alaska, recently sketched two moose in their summertime aquatic environment to illustrate this story. A scientist from Ohio once pondered why moose have such big noses. Why...
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Alaska Science Forum: Why is a moose’s nose so big?
A scientist from Ohio once pondered why moose have such big noses. Why might a scientist from Ohio care? It can tell a person about evolution, says Lawrence Witmer. Witmer is a biologist and...