A U.S. Coast Guard aircraft spotted wreckage in a glaciated area with deep crevasses near Mt. Leeper in Wrangell-St. Elias National Park.
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Sitka Tribe to co-manage interpretation at Sitka National Historical Park
After a year of negotiations, Sitka Tribe of Alaska will partner with the National Parks Service to begin co-management of historical interpretation at the Sitka National Historical Park — the first compacting agreement of its kind in U.S. history.
Even before leading John McPhee down the Salmon River, Pat Pourchot had his dream job
By 1975, when John McPhee showed up in Alaska, Pourchot was a skilled paddler, with three summers of river running experience behind him. But Pourchot had never heard of The New Yorker Magazine and didn’t have any idea who John McPhee was.
Report tallies tourism’s economic impact
A new report from the National Parks Service says Alaska parks brought over 2.5 million visitors, $1.1 billion and 17,000 jobs into the state economy last year.