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• 96 million pounds of pure annoyance: Weighing Alaska's mosquitos - Alaska Dispatch News

  16-05-2015 22:59
  
  Alaska Dispatch News
  96 million pounds of pure annoyance: Weighing Alaska's mosquitos
  Alaska Dispatch News
  Countless mosquitoes obscure the landscape at the Toolik Field Station, north of the Brooks Range. Scientists estimate Alaska is home to more than 17 trillion of them. Courtesy Jesse Krause. They're back. Sluggish mosquitoes, sprung from the leaves ...
  How many mosquitoes are in Alaska? 17 trillion, biologist estimatesFairbanks Daily News-Minerall 3 news articles »
  
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• Gusty winds increase fire danger in Interior Alaska - Fairbanks Daily News-Miner

  16-05-2015 22:09
  Gusty winds increase fire danger in Interior Alaska
  Fairbanks Daily News-Miner
  FAIRBANKS - The Fairbanks area is seeing southwest winds with gusts of up to 25 mph today, with dust blowing into town from the river bars and an elevated fire risk. Fairbanks International Airport issued an advisory to plane owners, asking them to ...and more »
  
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• State, Native leaders talk tribal sovereignty at Alaska Bar Association convention - Alaska Dispatch News

  16-05-2015 20:30
  
  Alaska Dispatch News
  State, Native leaders talk tribal sovereignty at Alaska Bar Association convention
  Alaska Dispatch News
  FAIRBANKS -- The challenge for his generation of Alaska Natives, Willie Hensley said, was to secure land rights, a fight that took place between 1966 and 1971. The challenge for the next generation, he said, is to simplify what has become a complicated ...and more »
  
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• Oil-drilling controversy here stirs old bitterness in Alaska - The Seattle Times

  16-05-2015 06:25
  
  The Seattle Times
  Oil-drilling controversy here stirs old bitterness in Alaska
  The Seattle Times
  1983: The Ocean Odyssey, one of the world's largest oil-drilling rigs of the time, maneuvers toward a temporary moorage for maintenance and crew leave at the end of Seattle's Pier 91, after drilling for seven months in the Gulf of Alaska. Seattle has ...
  BOEM grants Shell GoM conditional approval for offshore Alaska drillingOffshore Oil and Gas Magazine
  Seattle, like it or not, becomes Shell
  
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• A beaver walks into an Alaska hardware store ... - Fairbanks Daily News-Miner

  16-05-2015 00:34
  Fairbanks Daily News-Miner
  A beaver walks into an Alaska hardware store ...
  Fairbanks Daily News-Miner
  A beaver pauses in the middle of an aisle at the Lowe's store in Fairbanks, Alaska, Friday, May 15, 2015. The beaver triggered the automatic doors and strolled inside, where it wandered around the aisles until workers were able to corral it under a box ...
  Beaver takes shopping trip inside Alaska hardware storeYork Daily Record/Sunday Newsall 131 news articles »
  
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