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Anchorage Daily News (Free subscription) | 30/11/2008
... named David Roberts. According to the GPS signal, Roberts was in an isolated area of the Brooks Range.The center contacted the troopers' Anchorage office, which notified the Alaska Air National Guard at the Anchorage Rescue Coordination Center.The RCC dispatched a plane from Anchorage and a snowmachine from Bettles. About 5 p.m. Friday, the flight crew spotted a campfire that turned...
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Bellaonline.com (Free subscription) | 24/11/2008
... suitable habitat with the exception of the Kuskokwim Delta, the Alaska Peninsula, and north of the Brooks Range. As an herbivore, the hare browses a wide variety of vegetation. In the summer they eat grass, leaves, buds, shoots and seedlings. Winter, with its dearth of green vegetation, is tougher. During this season they subsist on twigs, buds, and bark. In the area around my home...
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Anchorage Daily News (Free subscription) | 20/11/2008
POPULATION: 18 (2007)LOCATION: On the middle fork of the Koyukuk River at the junction of Wiseman Creek in the Brooks Range, just north of Coldfoot on the Dalton Highway, 75 miles north of the Arctic Circle and 260 miles northwest of Fairbanks.DESCRIPTION: A roadside community where services and transportation of materials for the North Slope Borough provide a few jobs. Subsistence hunting,...
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adn.com: Lifestyle (Free subscription) | 09/11/2008
When she began studying snowshoe hares in the foothills of the Brooks Range 12 years ago, Donna DiFolco heard something new from Wiseman local Jack Reakoff.
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caribousmom (Free subscription) | 02/11/2008
... villages and the people and animals who inhabited them. Their adventures led them to the Western ranges of the Americas and an idea began to formulate - to create a book which celebrated the long and beautiful line of mountain ranges which run from the north to the south poles. They collaborated with Don Mellor (who they had worked with previously when they published Adirondacks Alive...
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Anchorage Daily News (Free subscription) | 02/11/2008
... price tag than the proposed $3.3 billion, 700-mile bullet pipeline to carry natural gas from the Brooks Range foothills to Railbelt cities. It's still not clear whether Pebble makes financial sense to develop, according to mining industry officials.The copper and gold deposit is vast -- one of the world's richest -- but the ore is mainly low grade, meaning that most of the rock dug...
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adn.com: Business (Free subscription) | 02/11/2008
... price tag than the proposed $3.3 billion, 700-mile bullet pipeline to carry natural gas from the Brooks Range foothills to Railbelt cities. It's still not clear whether Pebble makes financial sense to develop, according to mining industry officials.The copper and gold deposit is vast -- one of the world's richest -- but the ore is mainly low grade, meaning that most of the rock dug...
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illinoisreview (Free subscription) | 31/10/2008
... partners put an estimated $75 million on the line to drill for natural gas in northern Alaska's Brooks Range Foothills (also referred to as the North Slope Foothills). It was the first time exploration in northern Alaska had targeted gas, not oil. In this upcoming winter drilling season Anadarko plans to double, possibly triple, its exploration drilling for gas in northern Alaska....
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oil and energy news (Free subscription) | 21/10/2008
Take Anaktuvuk Pass, an isolated Inupiat Eskimo village in the Brooks Range, the mountains in the same North Slope district that holds Alaska’s prolific oil fields. Gasoline prices there had spiked to $9.20 a gallon at one point, meaning a trip by all-terrain vehicle to hunt caribou – the dietary staple in a village whose name translates to “Place of Caribou Droppings” – was an economically...
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Christian Science Monitor (Free subscription) | 20/10/2008
... is seen as an economic lifeline. Take Anaktuvuk Pass, an isolated Inupiat Eskimo village in the Brooks Range, the mountains in the same North Slope district that holds Alaska's prolific oil fields. Gasoline prices there had spiked to $9.20 a gallon at one point, meaning a trip by all-terrain vehicle to hunt caribou – the dietary staple in a village whose name translates to "Place...
