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Long, narrow fjords reach far inland, surrounded by lofty mountains and dense spruce forests ... A few small settlements dot these islands, the largest town being Unalaska (aka Dutch Harbor). Alaska’s ...
Each year, the City of Unalaska receives grant requests from the clinic and other nonprofit organizations on the island as part of its Community Support Grant Program. Last year, the city granted ...
Homka said Unalaska’s federal lobbyists — the professional lobbyists that vouch for the city’s needs year-round — have ...
But that changed in Unalaska during the 1800s when Russian colonizers planted many Sitka spruce trees on the island. Rachel Mason, cultural anthropologist with the National Park Service ...
Lanzarote’s volcanoes have inspired locals to make everything from art to wine. A tour of the island reveals the landscape’s ...
Local birding expert David Sonneborn took me out birding a couple of times, and we managed to see Hudsonian Godwits in the ...
Indigenous tribes worship the structure as a sacred mountain spirit known as "Andean Apu", which they say rose from the ground to protect the surrounding people. The belief dates from a time ...
Rescuers feared a hiker would get hypothermia on a Montana mountain when they called 911 asking for help, deputies said. Getty Images/iStockphoto A hiker needed rescuing after trekking through ...
In the summer of 2020, a person in Unalaska collected mussels and snails on a local beach and ate them. The shellfish contained extremely high levels of the toxin that causes paralytic shellfish ...