Scientists watching walrus movements as sea ice recedes
Fri, July 27, 2007
Biologists in Anchorage are getting a daily look at how walrus in the Chukchi Sea are responding to rapidly retreating sea ice. Walrus, especially females, depend heavily on sea ice to feed and care for their young. Scientists hope the study will give them greater insight into how global warming will affect the animals.
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Photos and PDF provided by Tony Fischbach, USGS - Walrus Research Program
Annie Feidt, APRN - Anchorage
Alaska suspects merger by Japanese seafood processors is anticompetitive
Fri, July 27, 2007
The State of Alaska is opening its own antitrust investigation into a proposed merger of two Japanese seafood companies with major processing operations in the state.
Casey Kelly, KMXT - Kodiak
Moose population management debated, especially in Tyonek Corporation lands
Fri, July 27, 2007
Every spring and summer in Alaska, an undetermined number of moose calves are orphaned when their mothers are killed in automobile collisions or taken by bears. Some Alaskans say that those calves could be rehabilitated and returned to the wild, but state Fish and Game officials fear that putting human-raised calves out on their own could result in higher predator populations. Tyonek Corporation lands, southwest of Anchorage, have seen what they call a “crash” in moose counts and want to take action to protect this important subsistence population.
Ellen Lockyer, APRN - Anchorage
Bethel chooses to allow cyanide transport through the city’s port
Fri, July 27, 2007
The Bethel City Council recently voted against banning cyanide from the city port. For the past two months the Council considered banning any amount of cyanide over 50 gallons from entering the city or it’s port on the Kuskokwim River. The move was in response to the proposed Donlin Creek Gold Mine 200 miles upriver.
Shane Iverson, KYUK - Bethel
BLM hosting Denali Highway volunteer clean-up this weekend
Fri, July 27, 2007
The Bureau of Land Management (BLM) is hoping for a large turnout tomorrow for a clean-up of public lands along the Denali Highway. The event coincides with the 50th anniversary of the 135-mile gravel road. The BLM’s Marnie Graham says the agency hasn’t been able to keep ahead of the trash on its own. The BLM is offering free camping, a barbeque and t-shirts for volunteers. Volunteers who want to participate in the clean up can sign up at the BLM’s Brushkana or Tangle Lakes campgrounds.
Dan Bross, KUAC - Fairbanks
Yakutat’s new ‘totem trail’ grants access to memorial pole and fisheries demo
Fri, July 27, 2007
Work crews in Yakutat recently completed an accessible walkway leading to the first totem pole erected in the community in decades. The pathway will also serve as a fisheries education site.
Ed Schoenfeld, CoastAlaska
Albino porpoise — or Pacific white-sided dolphin — sighted in Southeast
Fri, July 27, 2007
Travelers aboard the Chilkat Cruises ship Yukon Queen were treated to a rare sighting last Sunday. A large, white sea mammal was seen near Skagway.
John Hunt, KHNS - Haines
Alaska News Nightly: July 27, 2007
Fri, July 27, 2007
Scientists are tracking walrus north of Barrow, to see how they respond to rapidly retreating sea ice. Plus, cruise ship passengers caught sight of an unusal white marine mammal near Skagway earlier this week — it may have been an albino dolphin. Those stories and more on tonight’s Alaska News Nightly, broadcast statewide on APRN stations.
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Anchorage adding 2,500 jobs in steady growth trend
Fri, July 27, 2007
The Anchorage Economic Development Corporation released a mid-year report yesterday indicating the city will likely add 2,500 new jobs in 2007. That’s an increase of 1.7% over 2006 and continues a steady economic growth trend of nearly 20 years.
AEDC president Bill Pop pointed to significant growth in the business and professional services sector, which includes architectural, accounting and engineering jobs.
Pop said Anchorage has exceptional growth record when compared to other U.S. cities of similar size and the city has moved beyond the boom and bust cycles of the 70s and 80s, partly because of an increased demand for services as the city grows. He said service industry development helps keep more dollars in the state, especially in the area of health care.
Pop said the only area of slight decline was in new home starts, but he says this was offset by an increase in commercial construction.
Lori Townsend, APRN - Anchorage
Alaska Airlines stock nosedives on high fuel, low earnings
Fri, July 27, 2007
Rising fuel costs overwhelmed an increase in passenger traffic and cut into Alaska Air Group’s second quarter earnings. Alaska Air Group is the parent company of Alaska Airlines and Horizon Air.
Yesterday from its Sea-Tac headquarters the company reported second quarter earnings 17% below last year’s, or a little over $46 million this year compared to $55.5 million in 2006.
Passenger traffic was up over 4%. But in addition to higher fuel costs, the company says it has encountered new competition in its Mexican markets, a delay in converting some aircraft to combined passenger and freight configurations and an unusually high number of engine overhauls at Horizon.
The report drove Alaska stock down slightly over 10% to a 52 week low of $24.31.
Len Anderson, APRN - Anchorage
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