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Alaska’s Thaw Reveals—and Threatens—a Culture’s Artifacts
This story appears in the April 2017 issue of National Geographic magazine. The archaeological site of Nunalleq on the southwest coast of Alaska preserves ... “If you get an extreme, like ...
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Alaska's Choice: Salmon or Gold
This story appears in the December 2010 issue of National Geographic magazine. All that the American West once was, Alaska still is ... Many deem it foolish in the extreme to construct mammoth ...
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The future of Kenai Fjords
Born and raised in Alaska, National Geographic photographer Acacia Johnson ... documenting both changing ecosystems and communities in these extreme environments. “To learn a landscape well ...
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When wildfires break out, this elite team of ‘smokejumpers’ parachute in
A dangerous race to fight remote fires begins each summer when Alaska's combustible backcountry ... This story appears in the May 2019 issue of National Geographic magazine. The sun is still ...
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Meet the bowhead whale hunters of northern Alaska
This story appears in the December 2018 issue of National Geographic magazine. On the North Slope of Alaska, the culture of the Inupiat centers on whales. Each spring, men and women spend weeks on ...
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Gordon Ramsay Braves the Icy Alaska Panhandle
Michelle Costello (L) and Gordon Ramsay harvest glacial ice in Tracy Arm Fjord, Alaska. Photograph by National Geographic/Mark Edward Harris While foraging and hunting are time-honored traditions ...