Early this week, more than a 150 sixth grade students from Floyd Dryden Middle School ventured into the woods on Montana Creek road to test their outdoor skills.
Outdoors
Will Facebook’s famous bear cub move to Sitka?
A black bear cub that‘s become a Facebook star could find a new home in Sitka.
RMO-38 moose harvest is third largest on record
The preliminary numbers show this harvest coming out above the 10-year average.
Army claims responsibility for Stuart Creek 2 wildfire
Investigations conclude that artillery training caused the fire. As a result, the army will change its training procedures.
Soon, you’ll be able to hitch your bike to a rain boot
Juneau is buying bike racks that double as public art with locally inspired motifs.
Salvage efforts continue for sunken tender in Haines
A salvage operation and clean-up efforts are still underway in Haines, where a 78-foot tender sank last weekend in the boat harbor.
Even as season winds down, bears are still roaming in Juneau
Juneau police say a bear was struck by two vehicles on Glacier Highway near Jensine Street Thursday afternoon.
Impacts of the shutdown on the Tongass
The U.S. Forest Service employs about 400 people in Southeast Alaska’s Tongass National Forest and most of them are on furlough, awaiting a call from the federal government that they’ll soon be back to work.
Oregon’s Mile Of Glacier Caves: A Hidden, And Disappearing, World
“These are short-lived treasures, and once they’re gone they’re gone forever; they’ll never be back,” says explorer Eddy Cartaya.
Re-roofing the Treadwell pump house
It hasn’t been an easy job to re-roof the old Treadwell pump house on Sandy Beach.