Nature & Outdoors

The hull of the canoe the river folded over a rock. Image-Ned RozellOur Labor Day canoe trip went a day long, and almost a boat short.With our daughter traveling with teammates

A bump of atypically brown-tinged hemlock trees is evident on Mount McGinnis —at least on the recently rare days that it’s visible from the Mendenhall Glacier Visitor Center. When viewed through a pair of...

By Mary F. Willson On a gray mid-August morning with shirt-sleeve temperatures, a friend and I went up the Spaulding Trail to visit the first meadows near the trail. Recent heavy rains had...

<img data-attachment-id="57573" data-permalink="https://alaska-native-news.com/diversity-helps-a-place-survive/57572/image2021-09-03-1/" data-orig-file="https://i2.wp.com/alaska-native-news.com/wp-content/uploads/image2021-09-03-1.jpg?fit=679%2C563&ssl=1" data-orig-size="679,563" data-comments-opened="0" data-image-meta="{"aperture":"0","credit":"","camera":"","caption":"","created_timestamp":"0","copyright":"","focal_length":"0","iso":"0","shutter_speed":"0","title":"","orientation":"0"}" data-image-title="image2021-09-03 (1)" data-image-description="<p>Keith Mather, a director of the Geophysical Institute in the 1960s when it welcomed many scientists who were studying things other than the Aurora...

By Mary F. Willson A pretty little perennial plant (Triantha glutinosa) grows in many of our muskegs. It’s sometimes called sticky asphodel, after the flowers that were said to grow in the Elysian...

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By Ned Rozell We just had a party up here, to celebrate the Geophysical Institute’s 75th year of existence. Seventy-five years also happens to be the average life expectancy for a human these days....

By Bethany Sonsini Goodrich YAKUTAT —When conjuring an image of ‘surf culture,’ people tend to imagine Hawaiian or Californian breaks with dark-tanned bodies in swimsuits dropping into bright blue barrels. But what about surf...