Birding at Frances Slocum State Park. Meet in the parking lot of the Environmental Education Center and Boat Rental, off Mount Olivet Road, Kingston Township. Bring binoculars. Saturday at 8:30 a.m. Free. 675-9900.
Geophysics research professor Martin Jeffries is a scientific celebrity here at Denali. At least that’s what it seemed like when a 9-year-old student tugged on my shirt sleeve at the Denali Visitor Center last week and exclaimed, “Dr. Jeffries is here. I SAW him.”
Democratic candidate for governor Tony Knowles on Monday called for expanding the state’s early education and children’s health care programs. “We know Alaska’s children deserve and need the best education in America,” he said at a press conference in Fairbanks. “We can do that.”
On Sunday, September 10, the Anchorage Daily News published a column by former ADN editorial page editor Michael Carey in which Carey predicted the demise of Veco, the oil field services company, and of the Alaska Republican Party, as both are currently structured.
Denali National Park truly became a living laboratory for a small class of high school geology students last week when they discovered a new dinosaur footprint during a school field trip. They also found imprints of prehistoric plants that hadn’t been detected here before.
