Whitehorse climate change adaptation plan

"The main role of the Whitehorse Community Climate Change Adaptation Project Local Advisory Committee (WLAC) has been to provide a local perspective to the project and to guide the allocation of money for pilot adaptation projects.The WLAC members were chosen to balance the broad and overlapping interests/jurisdictions that co-exist in Whitehorse while striving for solutions which will be effective and widely supported--from Forward

Montana Kaimin, March 15, 2001

Student newspaper of the University of Montana, Missoula.https://scholarworks.umt.edu/studentnewspaper/10529/thumbnail.jp

Montana Kaimin, February 20, 2003

Student newspaper of the University of Montana, Missoula.https://scholarworks.umt.edu/studentnewspaper/5730/thumbnail.jp

Technology, Transportation, and Scale in the Koyokuk Placer Mining District 1890s - 1930s

The Koyukuk Mining District was one of several northern, turn of the century, gold rush regions. Miners focused their efforts in this region on the Middle Fork of the Koyukuk River and on several of its tributaries. Mining in the Koyukuk began in the 1880s and the first rush occurred in 1898. Continued mining throughout the early decades of the 1900s has resulted in an historic mining landscape consisting of structures, equipment, mining shafts, waste rock, trash scatters, and prospect pits. Modern work continues in the region alongside these historic resources. An archaeological survey was completed in 2012 as part of an Abandoned Mine Lands survey undergone with the Bureau of Land Management, Michigan Technological University, and the University of Alaska Anchorage. This thesis examines the discrepancy between the size of mining operations and their respective successes in the region while also providing an historical background on the region and reports on the historical resources present

Distant vistas: Bradford Washburn, expeditionary science and landscape, 1930-1960

Thesis (Ph.D.) University of Alaska Fairbanks, 1997Bradford Washburn is primarily known for his Alaskan mountaineering accomplishments and mountain photography. Between 1930 and 1960, Washburn led 19 expeditions to Alaska and Canada's Yukon Territory on which he surveyed, photographed and mapped some of the last unexplored mountain regions in North America. This study, however, analyzes Washburn's lesser known role in directing interdisciplinary field research involving high altitude physics, glaciology, cartography and geology, which he accomplished by linking such disparate entities as the motion picture industry, geographic organizations, the U.S. military, and prominent U.S. scientists. Washburn's career can be viewed as an intersection of nineteenth and twentieth century geographic traditions. He combined emerging technologies with new and innovative vehicles of exploration to more accurately study geological, geographical and environmental phenomenon in mountainous regions. During the Second Great Age of Discovery, which began with the Renaissance, explorers ventured into the heart of the world's continents by utilizing various vehicles of exploration such as canoes and pack animals. This style continued into the middle of the twentieth century when the present day Third Great Age of Discovery, characterized by the use of remote sensing platforms and space age satellites, allows for a more accurate geographic study and inventory of our planet. Washburn's interdisciplinary field work reflects the fundamental goals and patterns of expeditionary science found in both ages of discovery. In this study three important themes are examined: Washburn's role as innovative field scientist; geography as a disciplinary bridge; and the work of the independent geographer. By analyzing Washburn's work in the pre World War Two and Cold War era, we gain an understanding of the ways in which expeditionary science was funded and carried out within two fundamentally different political and economic frameworks. Moreover, this study provides an important window into our understanding of interdisciplinary earth sciences in the mid twentieth century. It also explores the often unappreciated link between environmental science and geography in the American context

Static Line, April 1994

This is the first issue officially named The Static Line, which is the predecessor to NSA Smokejumper. This issue contains the following articles: Articles of Incorporation NSA, dues structure, Fred Brauer, Bill Moody, Triple Nickle, articles. Historic reference articles: Loon Lake rescue of military by Penn Stohr, Higgins Ridge Fire, static line becoming loose on rookie training. This is the quarterly newsletter of the National Smokejumper Association (NSA) and was renamed Smokejumper Magazine.https://dc.ewu.edu/smokejumper_mag/1002/thumbnail.jp

The role of remote engagement in supporting boundary chain networks across Alaska

AbstractBoundary organizations serve multiple roles in linking science and decision making, including brokering knowledge, supporting local- and cross-level networks, facilitating the co-production of knowledge, and negotiating conflict. Yet they face several challenges in providing services for an ever-increasing number of actors and institutions interested in climate information and adaptation. This study evaluates how the Alaska Center for Climate Assessment and Policy (ACCAP) innovated its boundary spanning role to improve outcomes by partnering with other boundary organizations through its ongoing climate webinar series. We utilize the concept of boundary chains to investigate outcomes associated with different extended network connections. Our evaluation is based on the analysis three datasets, including interviews (2013) and two web-based questionnaires (2010 and 2013–2015). Findings from the evaluation reveal several ways that remote engagement via the ACCAP webinar series facilitates learning, decision application, and cross-level network building, and overcomes barriers associated with large geographic distances between communities. In an organic evolution and innovation of the climate webinar series, ACCAP partnered with other boundary organizations to establish satellite hub sites to facilitate in-person gatherings at remote locations, thereby increasing the number and diversity of participants served and supporting local networking within organizations, agencies, and communities. Leveraging complementary resources through the satellite hub sites provided mutual benefits for ACCAP and partnering boundary organizations. These findings advance our understanding of the value of remote engagement in supporting boundary spanning processes and how boundary organizations innovate their roles to build capacity and increase the usability of climate information

The F.E. Company industrial site : historic resources and preservation potential

202 pagesLarge scale corporate mining operations had a broad impact on the sparsely settled areas of western North America in the early twentieth century. The Fairbanks Exploration Company's gold dredging operations were probably the most remote of these, and their Townsite on Illinois Street is one of the best preserved and most coherent examples of this development, with national historical significance. It has regional importance as the headquarters of the dominant force in the economy of Interior Alaska in the 1920s and 30s. It is significant architecturally, as it contains much of the finest local residential, commercial, and industrial architecture of the period. It contains important examples of period technology and engineering, including a complete collection of machine tools and the region's first concrete and steel framed buildings. There is little doubt that the Townsite is the most important historic site in Fairbanks, perhaps all of Interior Alaska, and the F.E.'s Industrial Complex is its most important part. Most of the historic resources of the Townsite, long an almost forgotten part of Fairbanks, will soon be gone. Much of the Industrial Complex in the Townsite's western half is being destroyed as this is being written (a few buildings will probably be relocated to one side of the site). Highway construction threatens the landscape, if not the buildings, of the remainder of the Townsite. A number of opportunities will be lost along with the Industrial Complex. Of foremost importance to this report are the lost opportunities for historic preservation

Habitat Use And Harassment Of Sandhill Cranes Staging On The Eastern Copper River Delta, Alaska

Thesis (M.S.) University of Alaska Fairbanks, 198