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It’s time to re-write the history books again folks, although if you’re still reading that Christopher Columbus “discovered” America in 1492, you need to buy a whole new history book. Renessaisance-era Venetian glass beads discovered at multiple archaeological sites in Alaska suggest they pre-date Columbus’s arrival by decades, making them the earliest known European goods in the Americas. This means Indigenous North Americans had contact with people who had either been to Italy or tr...

ELIJAH NOUVELAGEGetty Images (Permanent Musical Accompaniment To The Last Post Of The Week From The Blogs Favourite Living Canadian) Gainesville, Georgia, a medium-sized city north of Atlanta, bills itself as the "Poultry Capital Of The World." Ever since shortly after World War II, Gainesville and its environs have relied on raising chickens and processing them which, as weve learned since the beginning of the pandemic, is an industry uniquely negligent in regards to its underpaid—and larg...

Print article Glass beads the size of blueberries found by archaeologists in a Brooks Range house-pit might be the first European item ever to arrive in North America, predating the arrival of Columbus by a few decades. Made in Venice, Italy, the tiny blue beads might have traveled more than 10,000 miles in the skin pockets of aboriginal adventurers to reach Bering Strait. There, someone ferried them across the ocean to Alaska. At least 10 of the beads survived a few centuries in the cold di...

Glass beads the size of blueberries found by archeologists in a Brooks Range house-pit might be the first European item ever to arrive in North America, predating the arrival of Columbus by a few decades. Made in Venice, Italy, the tiny blue beads might have travelled more than 10,000 miles in the skin pockets of aboriginal adventurers to reach Bering Strait. There, someone ferried them across the ocean to Alaska. At least 10 of the beads survived a few centuries in the cold dirt of three locat...

  COURTENAY, B.C. -- A woman is in hospital in Vancouver after she was buried alive in an avalanche Sunday in the Mount Apps area of central Vancouver Island. According to Comox Valley Search and Rescue leader Paul Berry, his team members were contacted for a request for assistance from BC Ambulance to evacuate a woman who had been trapped in a size-two avalanche while touring the Brooks Range, north of Mount Apps. “Size two is a descriptor used in the avalanche community – it’s larg...

Wisconsin landscape photographers passion is telling stories with his lens Bayfield photographer Jeff Rennicke and his wife, Jill, will co-direct Friends of the Apostle Islands National Lakeshore starting Feb. 1. 7:50 am, Jan. 31, 2021 × The northern lights and stars over Honeymoon Rock on Lake Superior, part of the Apostle Islands National Lakeshore. (Photo courtesy of Jeff Rennicke) BAYFIELD, Wis. -- It was a warm summer night in 2013 when Jeff Rennicke says he had his ...

January 29th |     Leaders of the state development bank now must decide what to do with a failed North Slope oil project in which they have invested $70 million. The Alaska Industrial Development and Export Authority took control of the Mustang project in December following years of fits and starts by former operator Brooks Range Petroleum Corp. that ultimately led the state-owned authority to foreclose on the project assets. Approximately a year ago the AIDEA board of directors approv...

Jeff Rennickes passion is telling stories with his photos Bayfield photographer and his wife, Jill, will co-direct Friends of the Apostle Islands National Lakeshore starting Feb. 1. 7:00 am, Jan. 29, 2021 × The northern lights and stars over Honeymoon Rock on Lake Superior, part of the Apostle Islands National Lakeshore. (Photo courtesy of Jeff Rennicke) It was a warm summer night in 2013 when Jeff Rennicke says he had his Aha! moment as a photographer. Rennicke was about...

The ANWR fight continues across generations Author: Michael Carey Published January 27 Share on Facebook Print article If celebrity means getting in the news and staying in the news, as wags have cracked, the Alaska National Wildlife Refuge has achieved celebrity. ANWR has been in the news since the 1950s, when Alaska and stateside environmentalists began lobbying for a wildlife reserve extending from the Brooks Range north to arctic salt water. The environmentalists’ lobbying was succ...

Close Before the former administration ended, it managed to fast track the approval to develop an infamous large proportioned project that is set to be constructed on the Alaskan lands. In north-central Alaska, the Gates of The Arctic National Park serves as a genuine wilderness experience for the people who want to know what the Alaskan ecosystem truly is. But, its not just an authentic Alaskan tourist destination; it also serves as a wildlife reserve for endemic animals that are local to the...