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Bog blueberries are a favorite of Alaskans and grizzly bears, but the fact that some people across the Atlantic have long avoided them was a puzzle to Zuzana Vaneková.

“When I was in Anchorage last week,” Olivia Hill said, “all I could think about was I couldn’t wait to get to Fairbanks.”

For those who watch and identify birds in the Fairbanks area, spring 2023 proved to be late and slow in several regards, but it also brought some great sightings.

The Alaska Energy Authority has recommended that the state provide more than $25 million to help develop 27 proposed renewable-energy projects around the state. They include a Golden Valley Electric Association request for funding for meteorological studies around Murphy Dome, where a developer is considering building a large-scale wind farm.

The stories cover the mundane to the miraculous, but all of them express something interesting about what it means to live in the Last Frontier.

The owners of a Fairbanks-based renewable-energy company propose building what would be the two largest wind farms in Alaska. If they get the go-ahead, they plan to sell power to Golden Valley Electric Association in Fairbanks, and Chugach Electric Association, in Anchorage.

A Fairbanks man and his Lower 48 business partner are advancing plans to build what could become Alaska’s biggest wind farms, one each outside Anchorage and Fairbanks. Andrew McDonnell, formerly an oceanographer at the University of Alaska Fairbanks, and Matt Perkins, an engineer from Nevada, are taking steps to build wind farms that could be several times more powerful than

Kelsey Aho works as a mapmaker for the U.S. Forest Service in Alaska. She is also an artist who collects earthen materials on her travels around the state.

“I can hand a piece of the Yukon River or Mendenhall Glacier to someone thousands of miles away…”

Fairbanks, Alaska (PRWEB) August 11, 2022 -- Explore Fairbanks’ original, brand-new Aurora Viewing Map & Guide demystifies chasing the northern lights for