Outdoors

City officials said Goldbelt Inc. is willing to put in up to $10 million for a slice of the gondola ticket sales. The particulars of a deal with Goldbelt would have to be negotiated.

The city’s working title for the project is the Lemon Creek Multimodal Path. The city doesn’t know where the path will be, what it will cost or when it will be done. It needs money to make a plan for the path first.

Kaleb Westfall sent his sister a one-word message from his inReach device: “Crash.” He was 50 miles north of Dillingham, and he thought he had a broken femur.

On this week’s episode of Garden Talk, Ed Buyarski shares tips for pruning trees in the spring to stimulate growth and fruit production. He also walks us through some of the perennial herbs that can overwinter in hoop houses. If you have questions for Garden Talk, email edbuyarski@hotmail.com or call 907-209-8905.

The Forest Service will accept public comment until April 18.

On this week’s episode of Garden Talk, host Ed Buyarski talks about direct sowing seeds, and shares everything you need to start growing potatoes (Spoiler alert: no tires!) If you have questions for Garden Talk, email edbuyarski@hotmail.com or call 907-209-8905

Ed Buyarski talks about preparing your gardens for spring seedlings, and discusses how to build and fill a raised bed for first-timers. Find instructions for building a raised bed here: Ed’s Raised box recipe. If you have questions for Garden Talk, email edbuyarski@hotmail.com or call 907-209-8905

The race, in some ways, is back to normal: Mushers are again dashing 1,000 miles to Nome.

Reports of aggressive moose have spread south, including into areas that Iditarod mushers will pass through.

The gondola system is not a done deal for Eaglecrest. Several Assembly members on both sides of the close vote have concerns about a lack of public buy-in and unfairly leapfrogging other priorities.