A Fairbanks biologist recently cupped in his hand a tiny bird whose arrival he had been rooting for.
Sometimes — but not very often — a door creaks open to a lost world. Sometimes the right person steps in.
Leanne Bulger recently found a new hole in the forest floor on the west end of Fairbanks. Into it, she poked a long plastic pipe.
Tundra swans — at 15 pounds and with a wingspan of almost six feet — are now touching down on the ponds and snowfields of Alaska.
Civil War veteran Charles Raymond was 27 when he accepted an assignment to visit the new U.S. territory of Alaska, a place so far away from his home in New York City he couldn’t imagine it.
