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Abandoned Cold War Radar Stations in Alaska On windy, cold nights a few decades ago, men in darkened rooms north of the Arctic Circle spent their evenings watching radar screens
Ghost towns scattered across Alaska map - Geophysical Institute There are at least 100 abandoned settlements in Alaska That's the number Beth Mikow figured as she wrote her master's thesis for UAF in 2010 Mikow, who now works for the Alaska Department of Fish and Game as a subsistence specialist, counted deserted Alaska places as part of her look at how the state changed since it became part of America
The Coldest Place in North America - Geophysical Institute On January 23, 1971, weather observers at Prospect Creek, a pipeline camp 25 miles southeast of Bettles, recorded Alaska's all-time low of 80 below zero The temperature at Snag was unavailable; Canadians had abandoned the airstrip in 1967
Rock redwoods in Sutton, stone bird tracks in Denali A few years ago, Chris Williams found a big tree on the grounds of an abandoned coal mine in Sutton, Alaska It was six feet in diameter, stood more than 110 feet above the surrounding swamplands, and loved warm weather and steamy rain showers The tree, a dawn redwood, died of unknown causes about 55 million years ago Williams, a researcher at Franklin Marshall College in Lancaster
Ghost ship artifacts emerge in museum | Geophysical Institute The captain and crew abandoned the ship, which carried furs from Canadian trappers and a variety of other cargo Following the ice's capture of the Baychimo, the captain and 14 men built a wooden hut on the sea ice to keep track of the ship One month later, they weathered a great windstorm in that shelter
Bus 142 to embark on final journey - Geophysical Institute Over the years, the abandoned bus hosted hunters, trappers and wanderers who happened upon the rain-and-bear resistant shelter just north of Denali National Park and Preserve
Bitter weather may have wiped out reindeer | Geophysical Institute Biologist Dave Klein first stepped on the island in 1957, 13 years after the Coast Guard had abandoned it Klein, 82, now a professor emeritus for the University of Alaska Fairbanks’ Institute of Arctic Biology, hiked the length of the island with field assistant Jim Whisenhant in 1957
Giant Chinese Dam May Cause Earth to Move | Geophysical Institute As the water rises, it will drown more than 1,400 rural towns and villages abandoned earlier by government decree The water rising behind the dam will power 26 huge turbines to provide electricity, and will allow people to control a river that has killed 300,000 people by flooding during the 20th century
Abandoned buildings | Cyburbia | urban planning, placemaking, and more We are re-writeing the zoning code for a 260 year old 25,000 population Southern town with only a 50 year zoning history In reviewing existing codes, we found a lengty paragraph allowing for the demolition of "Abandoned" buildings but no definition of what constitutes "Abandoned" Evidently