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ALLISON LAKE, ABOVE VALDEZ — Three men dressed in full raingear crept like ants across a bumpy green landscape on Aug. 25, 2023. Using a metal pole that was part

ALLISON LAKE, ABOVE VALDEZ — Three men dressed in full raingear crept like ants across a bumpy green landscape on Aug. 25. Using a metal pole that was part of

Story by Ned Rozell A steady rain falls on Allison Lake, a basin perched above Valdez in the Chugach Mountains. Photo by Ned Rozell. ALLISON LAKE, ABOVE VALDEZ

Three men dressed in full raingear crept like ants across a bumpy green landscape on Aug. 25, 2023. Using a metal pole that was part of a boat frame, together they lugged a four-stroke outboard motor above the wet greenery.

ALLISON LAKE, ABOVE VALDEZ — Three men dressed in full raingear crept like ants across a bumpy green landscape on Aug. 25, 2023. Using a metal pole that was part of a boat frame, together they lugged a four-stroke outboard motor that seemed to float above the wet greenery.

  Drake Singleton (pictured) and Peter Haeussler with the U.S. Geological Survey presented their research to a packed crowd in the Cooper Landing Emergency Services building Monday. Those layers are useful today to scientists who are looking to learn more about past and future earthquakes. Like Peter Haeussler. He’s a research geologist for the U.S. Geological Survey, based in Alaska. He spoke to a crowd in Cooper Landing this week about his research on earthquakes in the area. “It actuall...