Don't know whether this River otter was in the process of swallowing the little fishy or gagging on it, but what an excellent photo by Phillipo Flippo! #Alaska#AlaskaMarineLife
Squeeeeee!!! The three newest reindeer calves at the Running Reindeer Ranch and I just want to kiss and love on all of them. 💗
Photos courtesy of Running Reindeer Ranch #Alaska#AlaskaReindeer
At Nenana, in 1917, a group of engineers surveying for the Alaska Railroad started the tradition of placing bets on the when the ice would go out on the Tanana River.
That has continued every year since then, and 106 years later, in 2022, a pot of nearly a quarter million dollars was split between 18 tickets that correctly guessed the correct day, hour and minute (in Alaska Standard Time) the ice would go out, moving the famous “tripod” and stopping the clock.
Tanana River Break-up as a Climate Record
Inadvertently the ice break-up observations at Nenana have become one of the very #best#climate#data#sets we have in #Alaska.
The Tanana River is free flowing (no dams) it’s entire length and as the river passes by Nenana all the water flows in a single channel.
I like to walk around the University of Alaska campus in Kenai and today, behind the dormitory, I came upon this lady doing some serious grazing. She gave me a brief glance and went on eating. 💗 #Alaska#AlaskaWildlife#Moosetodon
The story of one of the best sources of #ClimateChange data in #Alaska and Northern Yukon begins 100+ years ago with a handful of bored engineers.
I like to imagine them drunk, too, which isn't an unreasonable guess given the limited entertainment options in a 500-person town in Interior Alaska in April.
I almost missed #TongueOutTuesday, but thanks to beautiful Jade, a red fox that lives at Alaska Wildlife Conservation Center, I didn't! Photo by Devin Watson #Alaska
With warming Pacific waters and declining sea ice, coastal communities face growing threats from climate change.
In Alaska, Indigenous communities have been battered by storms and are disproportionately at risk for environmental disaster yet are often left without support.