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National Park Service proposes to counteract state hunting changes

...appropriate for the mandates we have for protecting natural and healthy wildlife populations in the preserve," said Kris Fister, spokeswoman for Denali National Park and Preserve.The state game board in March passed a regulation that allows...

http://juneauempire.com/state/2012-12-11/national-park-service-proposes-countera
State
Search ends for climbers on Denali

...the slide pushed them into a crevasse more than 100 feet deep, the National Park Service said Sunday.Spokeswoman Kris Fister said Sunday that the search for the climbers was permanently suspended after a mountaineering ranger found the climbing...

http://juneauempire.com/state/2012-06-18/search-ends-climbers-denali
State
Denali reaching out to kids with new classes

...three through six.The programs will be available Monday through Friday, from Nov. 12 until Dec. 14. Spokeswoman Kris Fister says the park can do several sessions a day.Registration is now open.A news release says one of the programs, for...

http://juneauempire.com/outdoors/2012-11-02/denali-reaching-out-kids-new-classes
Outdoors
Winds push wildfire haze into Denali

...Denali National Park and Preserve was covered in haze Sunday from wildfires in Alaska's Interior. Park spokeswoman Kris Fister said winds moved smoke into the park, including its busy visitors area at the entrance. Fister said there are several...

http://www.juneauempire.com/stories/070609/reg_459817311.shtml
Mechanics' strike continues at Denali

...workers who work at Denali National Park continued through the Independence Day weekend. But Denali's spokeswoman Kris Fister says the picketing has not slowed down the stream of visitors to the park in the busy summer season.

http://www.juneauempire.com/stories/070509/reg_459496350.shtml
Small plane found in Denali National Park

...biologist who went missing while searching for wolves in Denali National Park was found Thursday. Park spokeswoman Kris Fister said the white and blue Cessna 185 that carried biologist Gordon Haber and pilot Daniel McGregor was spotted in some...

http://www.juneauempire.com/stories/101609/reg_505487565.shtml
California man dies of heart attack in Denali National Park

...California man has died of an apparent heart attack during a ranger-led hike in Denali National Park. Park spokeswoman Kris Fister identified the victim as 48-year-old James Brown of Coto de Caza, Calif. The death occurred Wednesday on a hike...

http://www.juneauempire.com/stories/091109/reg_491942026.shtml
Park Service would ban hunting bear cubs in dens

...ban hunting black bear cubs and sows with cubs in their dens in the Denali and Gates of Arctic preserves. Spokeswoman Kris Fister told The Anchorage Daily News it's targeting the animals at a time when they have no defenses. And regional Park...

http://www.juneauempire.com/stories/032610/out_596557223.shtml
Outdoors
Alaska Digest

...Guard helicopter crew rescued the 20-year-old man Wednesday morning. He was uncomfortable but uninjured, said Kris Fister, a Denali park spokeswoman. The man's name and hometown were not immediately available. The man and a backpacking...

http://www.juneauempire.com/stories/082407/sta_20070824026.shtml
News
Backpacker shoots, kills grizzly in park

...they were hiking Friday evening when the bear emerged from trailside brush and charged the woman, park spokeswoman Kris Fister said in a statement. The man fired nine rounds from his .45 caliber, semiautomatic pistol at the animal, which then...

http://www.juneauempire.com/stories/060110/reg_647458161.shtml
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