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• Newscast – Thursday, August 10, 2017

  10-08-2017 23:18 via ktoo.org
  
  
  http://s3-us-west-2.amazonaws.com/ktoo/2017/08/170810newscast.mp3Stories include: an oil spoil from a North Slope well owned by Caelus Energy; a crash injures people on a tour in Skagway Wednesday; the Coast Guard Cutter Maple reaches the Northwest Passage Aug. 3 on its way to Baltimore; and the realities of the Southeast king salmon closure hits home.
  
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• Nearly 30 people hurt in Skagway tour accident

  10-08-2017 22:39 via ktoo.org
  Nearly 30 people were injured Wednesday on a tour in Skagway.
  According to a news release from the city, a Unimog touring vehicle went off the road about  11 a.m. at the Alaska Excursions Dog Camp.
  The Skagway company offers tours of a musher’s camp in Dyea.
  The fire department and EMS volunteers responded to the scene of the accident at 10-mile Dyea Road.
  Twenty-five of 28 people transported to the local Dahl Memorial Clinic were treated and released. Three were m
  
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• Juneau’s first-ever, coho-only summer salmon derby kicks off Friday

  10-08-2017 22:31 via ktoo.org
  The Golden North Salmon Derby weigh station at Auke Bay. (Photo courtesy Territorial Sportsmen Inc)
  This weekend’s salmon derby in Juneau will go on as planned despite an emergency order prohibiting anglers from keeping king salmon.
  Meanwhile, derby organizers are hoping that a potential bump in coho returns will offset any economic losses during the event.
  The Alaska Department of Fish and Game shut down all commercial and sport fishing for kings in Southeast Alaska on Thursday because of
  
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• Sign project revives 1967 Fairbanks flood history

  10-08-2017 22:13 via ktoo.org
  
  
  Almost 50 years ago, The Fairbanks area was deluged by unprecedented rainfall.  The precipitation channeled from surrounding hills into the Chena River resulting in an epic flood that devastated the interior city.
  Five decades later, signs are going up around Fairbanks to remind people of what happened.
  http://media.aprn.org/2017/ann-20170809-10.mp3National Weather Service hydrologist Ed Plumb takes a measurement for installation of high water mark sign on an historic cabin near the Morris
  
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• Sun’aq Tribe intern helps collar bears and elk

  10-08-2017 21:31 via ktoo.org
  Jessica Rich poses with unconscious young male bear. (Photo courtesy of Jerry Belant/Mississippi State University)
  A small number of people ever get to touch a Kodiak bear in their lifetime.
  Sun’aq Tribe wildlife intern Jessica Rich had the opportunity multiple times this summer.
  She participated in a study looking at how foresting could be affecting elk and bear populations on Afognak Island. That involved knocking the animals unconscious and then collaring them with devices that can trac
  
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• Caribou hunting limited in eastern Interior

  10-08-2017 21:12 via ktoo.org
  
  
  The state will limit caribou hunting in the eastern Interior, along the Taylor and Top of the World highways.
  The Western Arctic Caribou herd is smaller than previous estimates of 206,000. (Photo courtesy of Alaska Department of Fish and Game)
  An Alaska Department of Fish and Game announcement says the no-hunt corridor prohibits harvest of caribou within a hundred feet along both sides of the road during a state hunt for Forty Mile caribou, which opens August 29.http://media.aprn.org/2017/ann-20
  
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• Want the freshest Unalaska fish? You’ll have to go to Europe.

  10-08-2017 20:08 via ktoo.org
  Unalaska brings in more fish than anywhere in America. All of it is for export. (Sarah Hansen/KUCB)
  Unalaska is America’s most productive fishing port – hauling in over 780 million pounds of seafood in 2015. That fish gets shipped all over the world and eventually — after processing — some of it comes back to Unalaska.
  But you can’t buy fresh fish in town.
  At one of Unalaska’s grocery stores, the frozen fish section is almost entirely fish from Asia.
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• Another mine opens close to the Alaska border

  10-08-2017 02:33 via ktoo.org
  
  
  Seabridge Gold’s Brent Murphy points to a valley to be dammed to hold tailings from the KSM mine during a 2014 tour. The tailings dam was granted a key federal permit needed for development this summer. (Photo by Ed Schoenfeld/CoastAlaska News)
  A new gold mine has gone into production near British Columbia’s border with Southeast Alaska, one of several prospects under exploration near creeks or rivers that flow into the region.http://s3-us-west-2.amazonaws.com/ktoo/2017/08/09MineUpda
  
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• NTSB unsure what led to 2015 Lynn Canal plane crash, investigation completed

  10-08-2017 02:23 via ktoo.org
  
  
  Eldred Rock (Wikimedia Commons image by Ryan Harvey, Flickr, Alaska Cruise 2008)
  A private plane crashed in November 2015 near Eldred Rock in the Lynn Canal, injuring four Haines residents, who swam to shore to save themselves.
  An investigation into the incident is now complete, but it’s still unclear why the plane went down.
  http://khns.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/08/08CrashwINTRO.mp3It’s been more than a year-and-a-half since pilot Mike Mackowiak’s plane crashed into the cold
  
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• Juneau Afternoon – 8-10-17

  10-08-2017 02:19 via ktoo.org
  Thursday at 3 on a Juneau Afternoon, Laury Scandling will host.
  We’ll talk with landscaper Dave Lendrum about plying his art at UAS;
  We’ll also talk with Denise Guizio and Sergei Niehaus about some changes at Capital Transit;
  Sally Schlicting will be here to highlight the upcoming Con Brio Concert Series;
  And Nancy DeCherney will be here with Arts Up.That, Writer’s Almanac, Bird Note, music and more, live at 3 on KTOO, repeated at 4 on KRNN, and available on demand via ktoo.or
  
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• North Slope well leak estimated at over 7,000 gallons

  10-08-2017 01:53 via ktoo.org
  A “Super Sucker” truck helps with spill cleanup in July. Caelus first reported the spill in June. (photo by Wes Ghormley, Alaska Department of Environmental Conservation)
  The state reports that over 7,000 gallons of oil leaked from a North Slope well owned by Caelus Energy.
  Tom DeRuyter is overseeing the response to the leak with the Alaska Department of Environmental Conservation (DEC). He says DEC thinks most of the spill was contained to a gravel pad, but about three gallons of oi
  
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