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• One man’s quest to find Glacier Bay’s ecological Holy Grail

  05-09-2017 23:08 via ktoo.org
  Brian Buma received funding support from the National Geographic Society. (Photo courtesy of Brian Buma/University of Alaska Southeast)
  Glacier Bay National Park and Preserve is home to some of the oldest ecology records in the world. But until fairly recently, nobody knew where to find the metal nails that marked the research plots. They were left by scientists over 100 years ago and buried beneath a carpet of soil and shrubs.
  When William S. Cooper arrived in Glacier Bay in 1916, he did so in
  
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• Newscast – Tuesday, Sept. 5, 2017

  05-09-2017 22:48 via ktoo.org
  
  
  https://s3-us-west-2.amazonaws.com/ktoo/2017/09/20170905newscast.mp3In this newscast:
  The latest standardized test scores show Alaska students aren’t doing well,
  the state of Alaska  and ExxonMobil continue fighting over the massive Point Thomson natural gas field on the North Slope,
  Forest Service researchers find out they had misidentified a benign native fungus for an invasive spruce bud blight in Southeast Alaska,
  a Labor Day landslide shuts down a major road artery in Sitka, and
  
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• No injuries in Sitka’s ‘pretty impressive’ Labor Day landslide

  05-09-2017 22:17 via ktoo.org
  
  
  A tour bus with passengers from the Seven Seas Mariner encounters the slide, which originated 200 feet up the hillside, Monday. The passengers were later shuttled to their ship via boat. (Photo courtesy Cassie Mendoza)
  A landslide in Sitka early Monday afternoon stranded people on either end of the road system for about eight hours, but otherwise there no reports of damage or injuries.https://kcaw-org.s3.amazonaws.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/09/04SLIDE-1.mp3The slide happened at around noon on L
  
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• Second Skagway rockslide in under 2 weeks; ships relocated

  05-09-2017 21:00 via ktoo.org
  The Star Princess was rerouted to Haines Tuesday morning. (Photo by Emily Files/KHNS)
  A rockslide early this morning near the north end of Skagway’s largest cruise dock will close the railroad dock for the rest of the day, the dock’s operator said in a statement.
  The slide occurred about 3 a.m., according to a statement from White Pass and Yukon Route Railroad.
  After geotechnical engineer assesses the situation, White Pass will decide whether to proceed with ship dockings Wednesday.
  
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• Focus On Community – Peace Talk – 5-30-16

  05-09-2017 20:48 via ktoo.org
  
  
  May 3pm 2017
  http://s3-us-west-2.amazonaws.com/ktoo/2017/07/PT-5-30-2016.mp3
  
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• Telling Tales – 8-8-17

  05-09-2017 20:29 via ktoo.org
  Telling Tales with MsG performed and had a live performance.“Ashes” by Susan Beth Pfeffer
  POEM
  The Revolution will not be Televised recording performed by Gil Scott-Heron
   
  
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• Trump ends DACA, calls on Congress to act

  05-09-2017 20:26 via ktoo.org
  A mother and daughter pose for photo near the White House in Washington, D.C., on Sept. 4, 2017. They were protesting to preserve DACA, the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals immigration policy. (Creative Commons photo by Joe Flood)
  Updated at 1:10 p.m. ET
  The Trump administration Tuesday formally announced it will end the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program — also called DACA — putting an expiration date on the legal protections granted to roughly 800,000 people known
  
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• Juneau Afternoon – 10 -1-17

  05-09-2017 20:16 via ktoo.org
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• Juneau Afternoon – 9-4-17

  05-09-2017 02:00 via ktoo.org
  Special: A president of immense political shrewdness and skill begins his White House tenure with a string of stunning accomplishments, and appears destined for Rushmore-level greatness. Four years later, his presidency is in tatters, the spectacular early successes eclipsed by a single, equally spectacular failure: a ruinous and misbegotten war that will ultimately cost the lives of 58,000 Americans and upwards of two million Vietnamese. Monday, September 4, 3 p.m.  Repeated at 4 on KRNN-F
  
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