The only road into Alaska’s Denali National Park is expected to completely reopen Tuesday if the weather cooperates and steep terrain nearby remains stable.
Wildlife
In Bering Land Bridge, Composer Looks to the Wild for Inspiration
Composer Stephen Lias’ musical compositions are inspired by wild places like Alaska’s Bering Land Bridge National Preserve.
Summer camp students complete skeletal rearticulation of sea lion
Students participating in Sitka Sound Science Center’s summer camp week, aptly named “Dem Bones,” recently finished assembling the skeleton of a California sea lion.
YCC: Introducing Alaskan kids to the Aleutians and careers with FWS
Youth Conservation Corps introduces high school students to a stretch of protected land they’ve grown up near, but may not even know exists — all in the hopes that someday these young Alaskans will become its next stewards.
Denali East Fork wolf pack status currently unknown
Denali’s East Fork wolf pack declined to just one known female and two pups earlier this summer. The pack’s last other member, a radio-collared male, was spotted dead at a hunting camp on state land off the Stampede Trail in May.
Video: Former Sitka administrator records brown bear on video
Former Sitka administrator-turned-naturalist Hugh Bevan recorded this short video of a magnificent brown bear on one of the eight trailcams he’s installed in the Sitka area. This animal was on the move near Redoubt Bay. In honor of this summer’s Pokemon craze, Bevan named the bear “Crunchie.”