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1,000 Reasons to Explore the Uinta Mountains Neatly tucked under the notch in the Northeast corner of Utah sits the Uinta Mountain range. This 460,000-acre wilderness area boasts over 545 miles of hiking trails and over 1,000 natural lakes, with more than 500 which support 7 species of game fish (Arctic Grayling, Brook Trout, Cutthroat Trout, Golden Trout, Mountain Whitefish, Rainbow Trout, and Tiger Trout). There are over 400 miles of small rivers and streams that form several major drainage b...

Wed, 12/16/2020 - 9:10am A helicopter hovers over a camp at the Pebble mine prospect in this 2010 file photo. The decade-plus fight over the project appears to be nearing an end after the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers denied the compay’s proposed mitigation plan in November. (Photo/Andrew Jensen/AJOC) The Pebble project ended the year on life support after the Army Corps of Engineers handed down strict wetlands mitigation requirements the company was not able to meet. From the outside things...

How Bob Stephenson Incorporated Indigenous Knowledge Systems in His Work December 11, 2020 In the fall of 1975 I read a scientific report that made me sit up straight in my chair. It was entitled “The Eskimo Hunter’s View of Wolf Ecology and Behavior” and appeared in a peer-reviewed volume of technical papers called The Wild Canids, edited by Michael Fox. At the time I was in the middle of researching a book about wolves, so I read carefully every paper in Fox’s book. The one I regarde...

Providing coverage of Alaska and northern Canadas oil and gas industry Finnex deal falls apart, North Slope Mustang oil field in AIDEA’s hands Kay Cashman Petroleum News The Finnex LLC deal to purchase the assets of the Mustang oil field, which lies between the Kuparuk River and Colville River units on the North Slope, appears to have fallen through, putting the Southern Miluveach unit in the hands of AIDEA-owned Mustang Holding LLC, per a Dec. 4 decision by Alaska’s Division of Oil and Gas. ...

Thought i should play dead and so i heard that you should do that, and then so i was laying there and then it went away. >> reporter: and what was going through her mind? did she think she would survive? >> no, i didnt. i was like, oh, my gosh, im going to, this is it. i am going to die. when it came back the second time it kind of stopped. i kind of petted it. and that did not work. so then it just mauled me. i think worse. >> reporter: abby suffered deep gashes and puncture wound to her thighs...

Bay or mt. mckinley, these are our heirlooms. they belong to our childrens children. we may die rich or poor but at least we know weve saved these places in wild alaska. its ground zero in the environmental movement. its our most beautiful state. >> im struck by so much of the writing about alaska, foreign correspondence. its so foraway, feels so alien to many people. youre writing about this like a deeply american story. >> unusual americans who worked to save alaska. a guy named bob marsel, re...