National Park Mystery Spot 43 Revealed: A Vast, Cold Wilderness
This one was easiest for readers familiar with aviation nomenclature, business attire, and the aurorae.
- By Bob Janiskee - June 1st, 2012 5:00am
Gates of the Arctic National Park and Preserve
Applications Being Accepted for Research Projects In Denali and Other Alaskan Parks
The National Park Service and the Murie Science and Learning Center are seeking applicants for two research fellowships that are available to individuals wishing to conduct research in Denali National Park and Preserve and other arctic and subarctic Alaska national parks.
- By NPT Staff - January 12th, 2012 3:00am
Array Of 17 Stations Will Help National Park Service Track Climate Events in Alaska
In the coming year technicians will install an array of 17 remote automated stations in five national park areas in northern Alaska to help the National Park Service track climate trends.
National Park Quiz 84: Ringer II
Nine of these ten statements are true. Can you tell which one is not?
- By Bob Janiskee - October 31st, 2011 6:44am
Fire Season Arrives Early and Vigorous In Alaska's National Parks
Though the wildfire season really hasn't started in the Rockies, Sierra Nevada, or Cascade ranges, it's been well under way in Alaska, where national park fire managers are reporting unusual fire behavior.
- By Kurt Repanshek - June 11th, 2010 10:10am
National Park Service in Alaska Takes Steps To Counter State's Approach to Wildlife Management
In moves designed to counter Alaska's current approach to wildlife management, National Park Service officials in that state are instituting hunting and trapping bans to protect wolves and bears in their parks and preserves.
Alaska Officials Considering Proposal To Kill Predators in National Parks Without Park Service Approval
Alaska wildlife officials, in a move certain to flare jurisdictional issues between the state and federal governments if OKed, are proposing that they be allowed to kill predators in national parks and preserves without prior approval from the National Park Service. The proposal has prompted a message from National Park Service officials that Alaska's wildlife management powers "are not absolute when we are dealing with Federal lands within the State."
Creature Feature: The Prehistoric-Looking Muskox is One Ice Age Relic That's Doing Just Fine
Thanks to translocations that began 80 years ago, herds of prehistoric-looking muskoxen once again roam Alaska’s tundra. Could these shaggy Ice Age survivors be emergent stars of the watchable wildlife world?
- By Bob Janiskee - December 23rd, 2010 9:59am
National Park Quiz 77: Both
Maybe one, maybe the other, but how about both? This month’s national park quiz will find out if you know. Answers are at the end. If we catch you cheating, we’ll make you write on the whiteboard 100 times: “The word both is an adjective meaning not just one of two, but the two together.”
Climate Change and National Parks: A Survival Guide for a Warming World -- Caribou in Alaska's Parks and Preserves
Caribou have been on the landscape for more than 400,000 years. For roughly the past 12,000 years, they have been hunted by humans — first the paleo-Indians, now the First Nations’ cultures along with many other Alaskans. Resilience to hunting, to weather, and to predators has enabled the caribou to remain an integral part of both the natural landscape and the human culture. The greatest test of their resilience, though, stands to be climate change.
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