...state is already paying to heat the home at a cost of about $10,000 a year, according to the director of Alaska state parks, Ben Ellis. Egan said it makes sense to get more use out of the house, particularly during the winter when it's...
...her career in Sitka as a seasonal park ranger at the Sitka National Historical Park, followed by seven years as the state park ranger for Sitka. She took time off to continue pursuing her career in art and raise two sons. In 2002, she applied...
...Monday, would allow for a feasibility study for a hydroelectric project at Chikuminuk Lake within a southwest Alaska state park. It includes language similar to a bill earlier proposed by Sen. Lesil McGuire, R-Anchorage.A 2002 management...
...explicitly called out." General permits would not be applicable to lands designated for game refuges, forestry, state parks and coal mining, according to the Department of Natural Resources.Some of the more controversial provisions of the...
...year, a group called America's State Parks expanded the effort, called First...way of life but also to promote state parks as a year-round recreation option," said Priscilla Geigis, state parks director in Massachusetts and organizer...
Recent snowfalls have allowed the opening of the entire area of Denali State Park to the use of snowmobiles, effective Friday, Jan. 18. Park staff has determined that sufficient snow cover exists to protect...
...Hatcher Pass, and are available at the Mat-Su Area State Parks Headquarters, at 7278 East Bogard Road, in Wasilla...information is posted on the Snow Reports link on the Alaska State Parks website at http://dnr.alaska.gov/parks.To...
...poetry in seven regions of the Alaska State Park system. The first phase of Poems...year are scheduled to be placed in state parks every year through 2015.The project's...Alaska Center for the Book, Alaska State Parks, a committee of poets and writers...
...Committee for four years. I was particularly fortunate to be on the Resource Committee and working with the director of state parks, Neil Johannsen, to establish a system of marine parks for Alaska. Even later when I was in the minority I was able...
...should be allowed in Kachemak Bay State Park and Kachemak Bay State Wilderness...helicopter skiing ventures in the state park and state wilderness park and solicited...helicopter skiing in Kachemak Bay State Park and State Wilderness Park. The comments...
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