...Classic, a charitable gaming event in which participants try to guess the exact day and time that the ice goes out on the Tanana River. The Kenai and Soldotna Rotary Clubs teamed with Spenard Builders Supply to put the ice block in place on the Kenai...
...resin droplets. In interior Alaska, studies along the Tanana River have shown that the combined browsing pressure of hares...affect vegetation dynamics. A computer model for the Tanana River floodplain of interior Alaska, published in the journal...
...Soldotna and Kenai are test running a Kenai River Ice Classic similar to, but unique from the Nenana Ice Classic on the Tanana River. Simply put when the ice goes out we have a system in place that will record the date and time the block of ice trips...
...Protection Agency and U.S. Army Corps of Engineers for approving permits for a new $180 million bridge across the Tanana River that will create year-round access to Army training area on the south side of the river.The ample space available...
...the 2012 field program, Haugen said. Much of the field work is focused on river crossings, including the Yukon and Tanana rivers, as well as at Atigun Pass in the Brooks Range, where there is constricted space because the existing trans-Alaska...
...university's agricultural program. ''Their tendency is to feed here and then head across the airport to roost on the Tanana River,'' said biologist John Wright, manager of the Creamer's Field refuge. ''We don't want that.'' When university...
...1917 by engineers building a railroad bridge over the Tanana River at the town of Nenana in Alaska's Interior. Because...classic records and discovered that, on average, the Tanana River breakup is occurring 5.5 days earlier in recent years...
...on record thus far, Long doesn't have a single lynx or wolf trap set. ''No. 1, we can't get across the (Tanana) river yet,'' Long said. ''No. 2, there's no snow over there. ''I've been trapping 50 years and I've never...
...the time to the minute when the tripod set up on the Tanana River will wash away. The tripod is connected to a clock...The ice on the Nenana River, which runs into the Tanana River about a quarter-mile below the tripod, went out Monday...
...which thousands of Alaskans pay $2 per guess to try and pick the time to the minute when a wooden tripod set up on the Tanana River ice will move. The ice officially went out at 9:27 p.m. Alaska Standard Time on Tuesday. Stickman's 75-year-old...
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