Frontiers Newsletter

Issue 103 Summer 2008

In this issue: Geocaching on public lands in Alaska * Jerry Brossia * Presidential Recognition * Simple Pleasures: Bird-watching * Take it Outside! * Outdoor Week 2008 photos* Lands are changing hands: Lime Village *  Unsung Hero of the Alaska Purchase * New field manager in Glennallen * BLM-Alaska's new Recreation Web site * Statewide News * Firewise

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Issue 102 Spring 2008
In this issue: Winter Trails Day 2008 * Trans-Alaska Oil Pipeline * Remove unauthorized/property from BLM public lands * Yukon Quest * Kick off of the Iditarod NHT Centennial * Denali Highway adventure * Overbaugh wins Mardy Murie award *  Resource management plans Lands are changing hands

Issue 100 Summer 2006
In this issue: A road less traveled * Steele Creek roadhouse * The red can brand * Alaska trails * Trading spaces in Juneau

Issue 85 Spring 2002
BLM-ASD Fran Cherry goes to WO, Henri Bisson new AK ASD * BLM national director visits Alaska * Olympics wrap-up * Denali Highway goes to the dogs * Colville River plan delayed * Fire planned in Alphabet Hills

Issue 84 Winter 2002
Alaskans lend a hand to help a city recover * Pipeline comments * The other side of NPR-A * Bridging the White Mountains * Meet your new RAC * News around Alaska

Issue 83 Fall 2001
The last homestead * Where's Johnny? * Dalton Cache restored * British Invasion * News around Alaska

Issue 82 Summer 2001
RAC tours Colville River * Firefighters fix cabin * Latest on easements * Eyes in the Sky * Russian smokejumpers * News around Alaska

Issue 81 March/April 2001
It's Iditarod Time! * Iditarod Shelter Cabins * BLM suspends 3809 regs for public review * Protect your property from wildland fires * Pipeline companies apply for the renewal of rights-of-way authorizations for Trans-Alaska Pipeline

Issue 80 Jan/Feb 2001
JPO hires consultants to assure safety * BLM rolls out final OHV strategy * Secretary signs Campbell Tract withdrawal extension * Plans for the Campbell Tract include accessible trails * BLM plans EIS for pipeline right-of-way * Alyeska employee survey shows improvement * JPO overhauls oil spill plan after 1989 disaster * Lower 48 blazes beat Alaska fires by miles * Congress increases fire prevention budget * Winter fires burns tundra * Thinning trees reduce urban wildfires * Last summer's 368 wildfires fewer than the state average of 630 * Western Arctic Caribou Herd group meets in Kotzebue

Issue 79 Fall 2000
Alaska's homestead era comes to an end * It's been 20 years since ANILCA was signed - but who's counting? * Changing times require changes in planing * BLM honors Carter for signing ANILCA * Free land, gold mines, a fresh start - the stuff of dreams to early settlers * Follow those minerals! * Wild West ended when settles took leave of their "census" * Varooom!!! Faster than a covered wagon! * Managing places for wide-open spaces * Director Fry swaps land duty for ocean industry * BLM releases Ketchikan geophysical survey report * BLM publishes final EIS on proposed 3809 surface mining regulations

Issue 78 June/July 2000
Friendly flowers or wilful weeds? * Wild about plants! They're wild - gardening with native plants * Did you know? * BLM geology team continues search in Koyukuk mining district * Making things right at the Maclaren Glacier * BLM abandoned mine lands program reduces risks to health safety and the environment * Proposed regs address oil and gas leasing in NPRA

Issue 77 April/May 2000
Retreating glacier reveals ancient forest * Receding ice reveals sinking ancient forest * Bering Glacier identified as key ecological site * Discovery Prescribed fire planned for the Alphabet Hills * Campbell Creek - the Sun Moves It * BLM poet takes top honors in DOI contest * BLM helps marathon mapping project * University analyzes Gulkana River surveys

Issue 76 Feb/March 2000
John & Clyde's Frontier Adventure * 1939 road trip paves way for Alaska Highway * "No thanks, I'll pass" * NPR-A subsistence advisory panel meets in Barrow * Historic Iditarod Trail cabin gets a facelift * Alaska Fire Service collects for costs of 1996 fires

Issue 75 Nov/Dec 1999
900 Acres up in smoke * Frostfire - 900 Acres up in smoke may save countless arces later * Nome Creek Road - gateway to White Mountains NRA * Changing of the guard * ARLIS offers bones, books, and info * Alyeska hold oil spill exercise on Gulkana River * Word travels about Alaska archaeology handbook for teachers

Issue 74 July/Aug 1999
Full of sound and fury * Council seeks new solution to a not-so-new problem * What's a RAC? * Reduce fire damage with defensible landscaping * Juneau Gold Rush days * Swiftwater rescue training pays off on Gulkana * No digging, please * Iditarod Trail picked for Millennium Trails Program * Handbook uses time travel and fiction to teach archaeology * Lee's Cabin reopens

Issue 73 May/June 1999
Iditarod Trail work is never done * Rediscovering fire * Big changes for AFS communications * Fort Egbert celebrates 100 years! * BLM volunteers "Making a Difference" * BLM-Alaska has new state director * BLM wins Federal Employee of three years running

Issue 72 March/April 1999
BLM sets NPR-A lease sale for May 5 * North Slope and BLM create new natural resource internship program * Inupiat Heritage Center opens in Barrow * Whaling is a key part of the Inupiat culture, in ancient days and today * New tracks would save people and moose * East meets north on the Last Frontier * DOI celebrates 150 years of service * BLM wants public comment on future mineral studies * Restrictions on motorized access to closed Gulkana National Wild River boat launch * BLM seeks advisory council nominees * Roadside reverie ...

Issue 71 Jan/Feb 1999
Protecting the predators * RAPS student strikes gold * RAPS and ROCKS * BLM releases Squirrel River EIS * New special management area * Subsistence board closes caribou hunt * BLM extends comment period for proposed Oil and Gas Rule * Pipeline ROW issued * Gulkana River Study progresses * Alaskans get second chance to comment on new surface management regulations * One way to stay warm * Iditarod champion musher Buser wins Copper Basin 300 sled dog race * Volunteers needed!

Issue 70 Nov/Dec 1999
Among the Fields of Green * Mapping veggies * Babbitt signs Record of Decision * Oil & Gas leasing in the NPR-A * Okay, ... let's give it another try * Dredging up a solution * BLM's new website outlines film permit process Costs of Firefighting Last Long After the Smoke is Gone * No fires, firearms, fireworks, ...

Issue 69 Sept/Oct 1998
New managers for Northern Alaska BLM * Kids on Public Land Day * Horsing around on the last frontier * Iditarod Trail Council schedules final meeting * A tale of two cleanups * Only one major Alaska fire for 1998 * Powerline decision reached for Golden Valley * BLM distributes $8 million * BLM state director announces retirement * Gulkana River planning begins

Issue 68 July/Aug 1998
BLM preserves Sitka cemetery and Russian blockhouse * Sitka's past * Interior officials review Alaska programs * No invitation, but they moved in anyway * BLM unveils proposed NPR-A management plan * Campgrounds rise up from mountains of mining tailings * Early days - golden times * Set the table - it's dinner time! * Remote Access Weather Station (RAWS) * Public Land Laws of Alaska * Gulkana River system Limits of Acceptable Change (LAC)