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.
In June of 1867 — a few months before Alaska would become part of the United States with the transfer of $7.2 million to Russia — William Healey Dall picked up a shiny black rock from a riverbank.
