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Park report: Bad decisions in 2011 McKinley fatal climb
by Casey Grove / Anchorage Daily News
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ANCHORAGE, Alaska - Standing triumphant on Mount McKinley on May 11, 2011, the team of climbers atop North American's highest peak that night had no idea what terrifying decisions they'd face just ...
UAF offers fly fishing class
FAIRBANKS - The University of Alaska Fairbanks is offering a weekend fly fishing class as part of its summer sessions program June 2-3 from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. both days. The 15-hour class is taught ...
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Fly fishing classes at Big Ray's
FAIRBANKS - Big Ray’s Fly shop is offering beginning and advanced fly casting classes on May 26. The beginners class will be from 10 a.m. to noon and the advanced class is from 2- 4 p.m. Cost is $...
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Hunt test at Chena Lakes
FAIRBANKS - The Fairbanks Retriever Club and Interior Alaska Gun Dog Association will host its annual season kickoff picnic hunt test Sunday at Chena Lake Flood Control Project. The test begins at...
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Logan Mowry, front, Liam Putman, middle, and Kristan Kelly approach the top of 3,900-foot Sable Pass while biking Sunday on the Denali National Park Road. Tim Mowry/News-Miner
Pedaling Denali: Mowrys plus one find plenty of ground squirrels but no bears
FAIRBANKS — We had only gone about a mile and a half when I realized we had forgotten something. “We didn’t bring the bear spray, did we?” I yelled to my wife, Kristan, who was riding ahead of me....
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Migrating shorebirds and songbirds have arrived in the Interior
FAIRBANKS — This year’s bird migration is well underway — the waterfowl and swans were the first to arrive, and have been followed by a wave of shorebirds and songbirds. It’s possible to see many o...
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Kids’ Fish and Game Fun Day is Saturday
UPDATED AT 11:50 a.m. to correct start time to 11 a.m. FAIRBANKS — Pack up the car and grab the kids; it’s time to go fishing. The good news is that you won’t have to go far and you can leave y...
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Eclipse viewing party set for Sunday
FAIRBANKS - The Fairbanks Astronomical Unit is hosting a viewing party at Creamer’s Field Migratory Waterfowl Refuge for the partial solar eclipse that will occur Sunday. The club will have telesc...
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This photograph of a grizzly bear missing its right front paw was taken last summer near the entrance to Denali National Park and Preserve. The bear reappeared in the same area a few weeks ago. / Photo courtesy of National Park Service
"Tripawed" grizzly makes return appearance at Denali Park
FAIRBANKS — A three-pawed grizzly bear that turned up in Denali National Park and Preserve last summer with a bloody stump for a right, front foot is back, just in time for the start of the tourist...
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Migration switch has been flipped on for birds to Interior Alaska
FAIRBANKS — Hold on to your binoculars and spotting scope, this will be a long birding report as there are lots of new things to report this week. Last week’s cold spell has given way to warmer tem...
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Tim Mowry/News-Miner A rock cairn marks the snow-covered trail between Angel Rocks and Chena Hot Springs.
Spring Angel Rock hike is both invigorating, desolate
FAIRBANKS — If there was snow down here, what was it going to be like up there? That’s the thought that went through my mind as we started up the Angel Rocks Trail last weekend in the Chena River ...
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Chitina dip netting slated to open June 7
FAIRBANKS — The tentative opening for the Copper River personal-use dip net fishery at Chitina is June 7, though that could change depending on daily sonar counts at Miles Lake. According to a pre...
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Cold weather puts brakes on spring bird migration
FAIRBANKS — The lovely weather during the latter half of April had most of us excited — it seemed migration for most species was early this year. While many migrants returned to the Tanana Valley...
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Photo by Skip Ambrose An American peregrine falcon soars above the upper Yukon River, home to one of the densest and most studied peregrine populations in North America. More than 50 pairs of peregrine falcons nest in cliffs and rock outcroppings along the 160-mile stretch of the river between Circle and Eagle.
Passion for Peregrines: Ambrose keeps count of falcons on upper Yukon River
FAIRBANKS — Though he lives in Utah, Skip Ambrose keeps close track of how breakup is progressing on the Yukon River near Circle each spring. That’s how he knows when he can start counting his pere...
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Fresh grizzly tracks gives skiers a scare
FAIRBANKS — Fourteen-year-old Joe Bue didn’t know what to think when he spotted fresh grizzly bear tracks on the trail last weekend. He knew the tracks hadn’t been there a few hours earlier when he...
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ADF&G to issue surplus drawing permits on May 1
FAIRBANKS — The Alaska Department of Fish and Game will be issuing surplus drawing permits for several moose hunts in the Interior on a first-come, first-served basis beginning at 8 a.m. on May 1. ...
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