The remains of the four buried recently in Kodiak were too old to be identified, but there’s a sense that they’re finally home, the executive director of the Alutiiq Museum said.
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Scientists examine Gulf of Alaska sea floor to see effects of bottom trawling
Scientists from the conservation group Oceana, which is based in Juneau, spent eight days aboard a research vessel circumnavigating the Kodiak archipelago.
Moose population boom, linked to climate change, inspires some hunting changes
The changes in the Togiak National Wildlife Refuge fit a wider pattern of wildlife shifts that affect subsistence users.
Wildfire in Katmai National Park grows to 3,500 acres
Officials say lightning likely caused the Contact Creek fire, which is burning in an uninhabited area about 40 miles southeast of King Salmon, on Lake Brooks.
Scientists want samples from the beluga whales that swam up the Kuskokwim River to Bethel
There’s not much data on where the beluga that swim along the region’s coast are migrating from.
Kasigluk fire destroyed 3 buildings on campus but spared the school
More is now known about the extent of the damage from the fire that burned on May 26 at the Akiuk Memorial School campus in Kasigluk.