Alaska News Nightly: June 26, 2008
The first large interior wildfire of the season reaches 700 acres. Also, The U.S. Geological Survey releases a study that quantifies the impact of predator control on wolves. Plus, Human remains excavated from Unalaska and Amaknak Islands in the 1950s and 60s will soon be returned to the Qawalangin tribe. Those stories and more on tonight’s Alaska News Nightly, broadcast statewide on APRN stations.
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First major interior wildfire blazing near Venetie
Dan Bross, KUAC - Fairbanks
The season’s first major wildfire in the interior is drawing state and federal aircraft and personnel to the Yukon Flats. The fire is burning very close to the village of Venetie. Maggie Rogers with the State Division of Forestry says the fire was started by someone at the village dump.
A question of ownership and access in Bethel road dispute
Angela Denning Barnes, KYUK - Bethel
A family in Bethel is blocking access to one of the city’s main streets. They’re trying to prevent the dirt road from becoming an impassable, swampy mess during and after it rains. The barricade is entirely legal, because the family own’s the native allotment that includes the road. They have the city behind them, but they’re frustrating some residents who rely on it to get around town.
New USGS study tracks human impact on wolves
Dan Bross, KUAC - Fairbanks
A new study clarifies human’s impact on wolf populations. The U.S. Geological Survey study looks at the affects of hunting, trapping and other human caused losses, like road kill. U.S.G.S. Wildlife Biologist Layne Adams says the analysis uses numbers from studies conducted over the last 30 years on wolves in Alaska and the lower 48. Adams says it reveals a tipping point below which losses have no affect.
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 Lincoln News Messenger | CLOVER VALLEY benefit cookbook hot off the press! Lincoln News Messenger, CA - "FLAVOR OF THE FOOTHILLS" features recipes from regional cooks and pays strong tribute to the unique dishes of our Native American ancestors. |
Cookbook chair: We need unique recipes Sun newspapers, FL - Tomashosky, a native of Brooklyn, NY, who has lived in North Port for 15 years, is president of the Ukrainian American Club of Southwest Florida and the |
New Crop Of Cookbooks Make For Welcome Gifts Hartford Courant, United States - She also translates the pure, clean, exotic flavors of her native food into simple recipes for the Western kitchen. "Mom's Big Book of Baking" by Lauren |
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Gardening: Domestic chestnuts harder to find growing, selling Muskogee Daily Phoenix, OK - It is thought that Native Americans were eating chestnuts (Castenea sativa) long before Europeans brought their trees to the new world. |
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