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Iron Dog blasts off

...nightfall, the leaders were taking a 14-hour layover in McGrath. The leaders are Mike Morgan and Chris Olds, with a trail...VanMeter of Kasilof and Marc McKenna of Anchorage. They were in McGrath in fifth place with a trail time of 8:31:03. VanMeter...

http://peninsulaclarion.com/sports/2013-02-17/iron-dog-blasts-off
Sports
3 bodies found in wreckage along Iditarod route

...Anchorage's north side. They had left Anchorage on Monday morning bound for Takotna, a village of 53 people about 17 miles west of McGrath and 235 miles northwest of Anchorage. The community is more than a quarter of the way into the 1,000-mile Iditarod. The...

http://peninsulaclarion.com/news/2013-03-06/3-bodies-found-in-wreckage-along-idi
News
Refuge notebook: New refuge biologist-pilot embraces challenges

...Experience Program, during which time I worked as a seasonal biological technician for the Innoko National Wildlife Refuge in McGrath and Kodiak National Wildlife Refuge in Kodiak. After college I got a job as a wildlife biologist for the Selawik National...

http://peninsulaclarion.com/outdoors/2013-04-04/refuge-notebook-new-refuge-biolo
Outdoors
Cecil Wayne Wilson

...Hills, El Segundo area until 1957 when the family transferred to Camarillo. Standard's operation included the Oxnard/McGrath field, Ojai and Newhall. In 1962 Wayne, wife Bonnie and two kids, transferred to Swanson River where Wayne was the Field...

http://www.legacy.com/Link.asp?I=LS000164055637
McGrath offers cash for wolves

...number of wolves near the Interior village of McGrath, according to spokesman Bob King. But the McGrath Native Village Council isn't waiting for...trappers $100 for each wolf taken legally. McGrath-area residents say wolves have been preying...

http://www.peninsulaclarion.com/stories/022500/ala_022500ala009.shtml
alaska
Is it success or failure?: Is it worth the cost of having wolf control in McGrath?

...in Alaska's war on predators began at McGrath in 1995. Local residents there and in...similar measure in 2000 also passed and put McGrath wolf control on the back burner. But...and Game (ADFG) estimated the cost of McGrath predator control at $1.7 million...

http://www.peninsulaclarion.com/stories/080707/oped_3090.shtml

...bronchitis-related cough.Bush spokesman Jim McGrath said he would put out another statement...Houston on Nov. 23 for treatment of what McGrath has described as a "stubborn" cough...improved, he developed a persistent fever. McGrath disclosed Wednesday that Bush, the oldest...

http://peninsulaclarion.com/2012-12-27
Of Moose and Men: Vacation works the bugs out

Last month, I reported on the results of a trip I took with my buddy Blizzard Bob. We went up by McGrath to a gold mining camp. Basically, it was a summer camp for grown men, only without adult supervision. For those that were fortunate...

http://www.peninsulaclarion.com/stories/082408/peo_322438043.shtml
Kenai judge sets former guide's original sentence aside

...allowing them to kill wolves in an area near McGrath, Game Management Unit 19D. Haeg originally...Gibbens during Haeg's 2004 trial in McGrath. On many trips, Haeg said, himself...individuals involved with his case flew to McGrath at the same time. And not once did he...

http://peninsulaclarion.com/news/2012-08-30/kenai-judge-sets-former-guide%E2%80%
News
Remote gold operations pick up pace

...stimulated Alaska mining projects including several in remote areas.The small Nixon Fork underground gold and copper mine near McGrath on the upper Kuskokwim River continued operations in 2012 according to its owner, Canada-based Fire River Gold Corp.In...

http://peninsulaclarion.com/news/2012-11-08/remote-gold-operations-pick-up-pace
News

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