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• Alaska's national refuges are not private game reserves - LA Times - Los Angeles Times

  18-03-2017 13:02
  
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  Alaska's national refuges are not private game reserves - LA Times
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  The 16 national wildlife refuges in Alaska span the state from the remote Arctic on the northern edge to the volcanic Aleutian islands southwest of Anchorage.and more »
  
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• 'King' polar bear skull found in northern Alaska may solve mystery ... - Fox News

  18-03-2017 05:48
  
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  'King' polar bear skull found in northern Alaska may solve mystery ...
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  Archaeologists studying the existence of “king” polar bears find information on these bears elusive. There is little information available from the indigenous ...
  Alaska polar bear skull could support Inuit accounts | Daily Mail OnlineDaily Mailall 4 news articles »
  
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• Photos: Day 3 of Alaska March Madness basketball - Alaska Dispatch News

  18-03-2017 03:39
  
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  Photos: Day 3 of Alaska March Madness basketball
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  Selawik's Marjorie Hingsbergen celebrates after the final horn. Selawik beat King Cove, 44-42, in the semifinals of the girls 1A state championship tournament at the Alaska Airlines Center on March 17, 2017. (Marc Lester / Alaska Dispatch News). Buy Photo.
  
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• Alaska salmon harvest expected to double this year - Alaska Dispatch News

  18-03-2017 03:29
  
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  Alaska salmon harvest expected to double this year
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  Sockeye salmon in a tote on the fishing boat Whatever, May 4, 2009. (Marc Lester / ADN archive 2009). Alaska salmon fishermen could haul in a harvest nearly double last year's catch due to a projected uptick in the number of pinks. An Alaska Department ...
  
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• Italian company submits plan to drill for oil in the Arctic

  18-03-2017 02:30
  
  Melting ice of the Beaufort Sea near where Eni hopes to drill for oil. (Photo courtesy NOAA)Italian energy company Eni this month submitted an exploration plan to drill for oil in federal waters in the Beaufort Sea.
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  Last November, the Obama administration removed the Arctic Ocean from new oil and gas leasing for five years, but Eni secured its leases before that decision was made.
  The company currently holds 75 leases in federal waters in Beaufort and Chukchi Seas, according to its we
  
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• Alaska News Nightly: Friday, March 17, 2016

  18-03-2017 02:22
  
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  Italian company Eni submits plan to drill for oil in Beaufort Sea
  Elizabeth Harball, Alaska’s Energy Desk – Anchorage
  Italian energy company Eni this month submitted an exploration plan to drill for oil in federal waters in the Beaufort Sea.
  House passes deep cut to per diem allowances
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• Forecasting Sitka’s herring biomass is a thorough but imperfect science

  18-03-2017 02:01
  
  Fisheries scientist Sherri Dressel reviews the data that shaped this year’s herring forecast in Sitka Sound. “It’s not a perfect world,” she told the 48 permit holders, “But Sitka has the best data set in the Pacific.” (Emily Russell/KCAW)As seiners converge in Sitka for the annual sac roe herring fishery, the Alaska Department of Fish and Game is holding firm on its harvest target of 14,649 tons.
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  This is despite having fallen short of that target i
  
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• House passes deep cut to per diem allowances

  18-03-2017 01:55
  
  Rep. Tammie Wilson, R-North Pole, reads through a series of amendments to the state’s budget on March 7. She proposed cutting legislators’ per diem allowances. The House passed a similar proposal.  (Photo by Rashah McChesney/Alaska’s Energy Desk)The House voted to cut the money to pay for lawmakers’ daily expenses during the legislative session by three-quarters.
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  It was one of a dozen amendments to the budget that the House passed, while the body reje
  
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• Feds worry oil pipeline near leaking Cook Inlet gas line also at risk

  18-03-2017 01:51
  
  Cook Inlet oil platforms are visible from shore near Kenai, Alaska. (Photo by Rashah McChesney/Alaska’s Energy Desk)Federal regulators are raising concerns about a second pipeline in Cook Inlet.
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  It’s been more than a month since the oil and gas company Hilcorp discovered a leak in a natural gas pipeline fueling one of its offshore drilling platforms. That line continues to leak methane into the Inlet near Nikiski. The company has said, due to hazardous ice conditions, repa
  
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• Fairbanks cyclist wins Iditarod Trail Invitational

  18-03-2017 01:49
  
  Jay Cable of Fairbanks has won the 1,000 mile Iditarod Trail Invitational human-powered race.
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  Cable pedaled his fat bike under the burled arch in Nome Wednesday to claim the top spot, after 17 days, three hours on the trail. Vancouver BC based cyclist RJ Sauer followed 17 hours later to take second place, and Pennsylvania’s Tim Hewitt was third, another seven hours back. Hewitt becomes the only ITI racer to have completed the 1,000-mile event on foot and by bike. Race direc
  
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• Open North American Sled Dog Championship kicks off

  18-03-2017 01:26
  
  The Open North American Sled Dog Championship gets underway Friday (March 17) in Fairbanks. 23 mushers will compete for $40,000 in prize money over three days of sprint racing, with the fastest combined time winning.
  The field for this year’s ONAC, includes last year’s winner Buddy Streeper of Fort Nelson British Columbia and his wife Lina, who placed third in 2016, as well as local Roxy Wright, who came out of a 20-year retirement to take second in last year’s O
  
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• Victor Joseph reelected as President of Tanana Chiefs Conference

  18-03-2017 01:19
  
  Victor Joseph will serve a second term as President of the Tanana Chiefs Conference. Joseph was elected to remain head of the interior tribal organization for another 3 years during voting Thursday (March 16), as the TCC annual convention wrapped up in Fairbanks. In accepting his second term Joseph pledged to continue working on key issues.
  ”More job opportunities,” Joseph started. “More opportunities for your kids. The survival of your communities. Better education. Needing th
  
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• AK: How genetics changed mush dogs of the past

  18-03-2017 00:35
  
  Lots of dogs resting in Galena, where many mushers are taking their 24 hour rests this year (Photo: Zachariah Hughes, Alaska Public Media)The huskies running today’s Iditarod bear little resemblance to the bulky sled-dogs Alaskans used to rely on year-round. As breeding programs have refined genetic lines to create dogs designed to excel at the thousand-mile winter-time race, the cost of specialization has been a lack of versatility. Decades ago, sled-dogs might have run in races, but they
  
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• Inspectors Seek Review of Second Alaska Underwater Pipeline - U.S. News & World Report

  18-03-2017 00:01
  Inspectors Seek Review of Second Alaska Underwater Pipeline
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  Federal inspectors have issued a second proposed safety order to the owner of an underwater pipeline spewing processed natural gas into Alaska's Cook Inlet. | March 17, 2017, at 6:54 p.m.. MORE. LinkedIn · StumbleUpon · Google +; Cancel. Inspectors ...
  
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• Bristol Bay

  18-03-2017 00:00
  
  David Parks Jr. gives some casting tips to his client Sarah Pearl in the Kulik River at the Bristol Bay Guide Academy, June 2015. (Photo by Matt Martin/KDLG)In the whole world, there are just a few places where a confluence of environmental factors creates incredible abundance. One of those is Bristol Bay. On the next Outdoor Explorer, we’ll talk about the bay’s fisheries, the richest for commercial salmon and the regions’ angling for enormous trout. We’ll also touch on t
  
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