Skip Ambrose has floated the upper Yukon River almost every year since Richard Nixon was President.
In 1935, in the middle of the Great Depression, President Franklin D. Roosevelt established the Federal Writers’ Project.
On a trip to Quartz Lake, visitor to Alaska Garrett Ast once plucked a caterpillar from a twig.
On a recent river trip in northern Alaska, scientists from the University of Alaska Museum of the North found a lost world, a time of “polar forests with reptiles running around in them.”
BLACK RAPIDS OF THE DELTA RIVER — If we climb high enough above this tumble of gray water, we can see a wedge of blue-white ice withering into the mountains.
