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Lee PetersenEvening light on the high peaks above the Loket Tributary to the Black Rapids Glacier in the Mt. Hayes region of the Alaska Range. Fresh snow had fallen the day before — not rare for late June.More photos and details on this area: lwpetersen.com/alaska-information/black-rapids-glacier<a href="https://alaskan.social/tags/glacier" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#glacier</a> <a href="https://alaskan.social/tags/alaska" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#alaska</a> <a href="https://alaskan.social/tags/mountains" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#mountains</a> <a href="https://alaskan.social/tags/landscape" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#landscape</a>

JdeB759 <a href="https://climatejustice.social/tags/ClimateEmergency" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#ClimateEmergency</a> <a href="https://climatejustice.social/tags/Alaska" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Alaska</a> <a href="https://climatejustice.social/tags/Indigenous" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Indigenous</a>"Alaska Natives want the US military to clean up its toxic waste" by Anita Hofschneider for Grist [Mar 19, 2025] [Audio available]<a href="https://grist.org/indigenous/alaska-natives-want-the-u-s-military-to-clean-up-its-toxic-waste/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://grist.org/indigenous/alaska-natives-want-the-u-s-military-to-clean-up-its-toxic-waste/</a>Quotes: "Now they're turning to the UN for help.""In June 1942,../\..Army reserve made up of volunteers ../\..from Alaska’s Indigenous peoples — Aleut, Inupiak, Yupik, Tlingit, and many others — that the guard was nicknamed the “Eskimo Scouts.” "“Our grandfathers and fathers volunteered for the Alaska territorial guard,” she [Viola Waghiyi, who is Yupik from Sivuqaq JdeB] said. “We were very patriotic.” "But that trust was abused, Waghiyi said. The U.S. military eventually abandoned its Air Force and Army bases, leaving the land polluted with toxic chemicals such as fuel, mercury, and polychlorinated biphenyls, or PCBs, that are known as “forever chemicals”"Now, Waghiyi is the environmental health and justice program director at the Alaska Community Action on Toxics, an organization dedicated to limiting the effects of toxic substances on Alaska’s residents and environment.""Their complaint calls for the United Nations to investigate how military waste on Sivuqaq continues to violate the rights of the people who live there../\..“By exposing the Yupik people of Sivuqaq to polluted drinking water sources, air, and soil, and by contaminating local native foods; by causing pervasive human exposure to hazardous chemicals through multiple routes""This submission from Alaska is part of a larger, global effort to raise awareness of military toxic waste by the United Nations../\..The information collected will be used in a report presented to the U.N. General Assembly in October.""The two shuttered bases in Sivuqaq, Alaska, are now classified as “formerly used defense,” or FUD, sites, overseen by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, and more than $130 million has been spent to remove the contamination. John Budnik, a spokesman for the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers in Alaska, said the cleanup is considered complete but that the agency is reviewing the site every five years “to ensure the selected remedies continue to be protective of human health and the environment.” "A 2022 study found that so far, federal cleanup efforts have been inadequate. “High levels of persistent organic pollutants and toxic metals continue to leach from the Northeast Cape FUD site despite large-scale remediation that occurred in the early 2000s,” the authors concluded.""Stephanie Buss, contaminated sites program manager at the agency, said her office has asked the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers to do additional cleanup at Northeast Cape. “These active contaminated sites have not met closure requirements,” she said. The second former base, Gambell, was classified as completed but still lacks land use controls, she noted. ""That same 2022 study found that 89 percent of the fish around the Northeast Cape base contained mercury exceeding the levels the EPA deemed appropriate for people who rely on subsistence fishing. “All fish sampled near the FUD site exceeded the EPA’s PCB guidelines for cancer risk for unrestricted human consumption,”"“It’s not a matter of if we’ll get cancer, but when,” Waghiyi said. Her father died of cancer. Her mother had a stillborn child. Waghiyi herself is a cancer survivor and has had three miscarriages. “We feel that they have turned their back on us,” Waghiyi said of the U.S. military. “We wanted our lands to be turned back in the same condition when they turned over.” "The U.S. military has a long history of contaminating lands and waters through military training and battles sites, including on Indigenous lands. Citizens of the Navajo Nation in Arizona and Yakama Nation in Washington continue to raise concerns about the ongoing effects of military nuclear testing on their lands and health. In the Marshall Islands, fishing,... On Guam, chemicals... Last year, a federal report found that climate change threatens to unearth even more U.S. military nuclear waste in both the Marshall Islands and Greenland.""In 2021, the Navy in Hawaiʻi poisoned 90,000 people when jet fuel leached from aging, massive underground storage tanks.""The complaint filed last week by the Alaska Community Action on Toxics calls for the United Nations to write to U.S. federal and state agencies and call upon them to honor a 1951 agreement between the U.S. government and the Sivuqaq Yupik people that prohibited polluting the land.""“The import of the agreement was clear: The military must not despoil the island... “This is a burden we didn’t create,” Waghiyi said."

Snowshadow 🇨🇦🇺🇸 🇺🇸 Dear Alaska, As a former resident of BC and a Canadian I have this to say," Complaining about poor international relations is like complaining we won't allow an abusive household partner back into our home. Adding abusive measures and gaslighting won't solve the problem. Since sunshine is limited up there, I am pretty sure you know where to put that resolution"<a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Alaska" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Alaska</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/US" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#US</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Canada" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Canada</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Cdnpoli" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Cdnpoli</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/BC" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#BC</a> <a href="https://www.ashcroftcachecreekjournal.com/news/alaskan-resolution-supporting-canadian-sovereignty-passes-7909022" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://www.ashcroftcachecreekjournal.com/news/alaskan-resolution-supporting-canadian-sovereignty-passes-7909022</a>

Lee PetersenClaytonia sarmentose, also called spring beauty, is one of the early wildflowers I start looking for each year. The curled stigma is one of its most distinctive features.More photos and ID details in the wildflower guide: lwpetersen.com/alaska-wildflowers/spring-beauty-claytonia-sarmentosa<a href="https://alaskan.social/tags/wildflowers" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#wildflowers</a> <a href="https://alaskan.social/tags/bloomscrolling" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#bloomscrolling</a> <a href="https://alaskan.social/tags/alaska" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#alaska</a>

David ReamerBritish Pathé newsreel about the March 27, 1964 Good Friday Earthquake aftermath in Anchorage. The earthquake occurred sixty-one years ago today. <a href="https://alaskan.social/tags/alaskahistory" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#alaskahistory</a> <a href="https://alaskan.social/tags/alaska" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#alaska</a> <a href="https://alaskan.social/tags/anchoragehistory" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#anchoragehistory</a>

Rick ThomanHot off the digital press, the brand new Alaska’s Changing Wildfire Environment 2.0 from the Alaska Fire Science Consortium at the International Arctic Research Center is now online. This updates the 2020 report and is full of updated information on many aspects of wildfire and wildfire management in Alaska. Available in a web version and a pdf. <a href="https://alaskan.social/tags/akwx" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#akwx</a> <a href="https://alaskan.social/tags/Alaska" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Alaska</a> <a href="https://alaskan.social/tags/wildfire" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#wildfire</a> <a href="https://alaskan.social/tags/Climate" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Climate</a> <a href="https://alaskan.social/@anisian" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@anisian</a> <a href="https://www.frames.gov/afsc/ACWE" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://www.frames.gov/afsc/ACWE</a>

ProPublicaAlaska Supreme Court Places New Limits on Pretrial Delays —The move follows an investigation by ProPublica and the Anchorage Daily News that found some cases have taken as long as a decade to reach juries, potentially violating the rights of victims and defendants alike. <a href="https://www.propublica.org/article/alaska-supreme-court-limits-pretrial-delays?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon-post" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://www.propublica.org/article/alaska-supreme-court-limits-pretrial-delays?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon-post</a><a href="https://newsie.social/tags/News" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#News</a> <a href="https://newsie.social/tags/Alaska" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Alaska</a> <a href="https://newsie.social/tags/Law" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Law</a> <a href="https://newsie.social/tags/Court" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Court</a> <a href="https://newsie.social/tags/Crime" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Crime</a>

David ReamerCirca 1979, 2nd Avenue (Two Street) in Fairbanks. The Co-Op, Savoy Bar (in its second location), and the just visible Lacey Street Theater stand out. Via Thomas Hawk on Flickr. <a href="https://alaskan.social/tags/alaskahistory" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#alaskahistory</a> <a href="https://alaskan.social/tags/alaska" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#alaska</a>

MicheleV_AKCaribou in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge or ANWR photographed by Melvin Kayotuk. Stunning!! <a href="https://sfba.social/tags/Alaska" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Alaska</a> <a href="https://sfba.social/tags/ArcticNationalWildlifeRefuge" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#ArcticNationalWildlifeRefuge</a> <a href="https://sfba.social/tags/ANWR" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#ANWR</a> <a href="https://sfba.social/tags/AlaskaCaribou" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#AlaskaCaribou</a>

Rick ThomanTanacross <a href="https://alaskan.social/tags/Dene" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Dene</a> <a href="https://alaskan.social/tags/Language" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Language</a> <a href="https://alaskan.social/tags/Alaska" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Alaska</a> tidaxdint̲h̲ek "the situation is bad" shaa xéxúntsáath "it is difficult for me" ts’ani’egt’eh "I'm angry"😡😡<a href="https://alaskan.social/@ScoterD" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@ScoterD</a> <a href="https://fnordon.de/@transitionalaspect" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@transitionalaspect</a>

MicheleV_AKI'm quite sure Lacee Johnson was pretty far away to get this shot! It's the same female black bear she's been photographing for a few days. So beautiful and healthy. <a href="https://sfba.social/tags/Alaska" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Alaska</a> <a href="https://sfba.social/tags/AlaskaWildlife" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#AlaskaWildlife</a> <a href="https://sfba.social/tags/AlaskaBlackBears" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#AlaskaBlackBears</a>

Lee PetersenI’ve spent hundreds of nights watching the aurora in Alaska, but this night at Angel Rocks is still burned into my memory. I hiked up at sunset, found a spot on a rocky outcrop, and waited — and when the lights came, they came fast. One of the brightest, most intense aurora I’ve ever seen, racing across the sky and lighting up the whole valley below.See more aurora in my gallery: <a href="https://photos.lwpetersen.com/Galleries/Alaska-Photos/Aurora-Borealis" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://photos.lwpetersen.com/Galleries/Alaska-Photos/Aurora-Borealis</a><a href="https://alaskan.social/tags/auroraborealis" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#auroraborealis</a> <a href="https://alaskan.social/tags/northernlights" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#northernlights</a> <a href="https://alaskan.social/tags/alaska" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#alaska</a> <a href="https://alaskan.social/tags/hiking" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#hiking</a>

US news | The Guardian‘Protect our future’: Alaskan Indigenous town fights ‘destructive’ uranium mine project <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/mar/25/uranium-mine-elim-alaska-trump" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/mar/25/uranium-mine-elim-alaska-trump</a> <a href="https://halo.nu/tags/Trumpadministration" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Trumpadministration</a> <a href="https://halo.nu/tags/Indigenouspeoples" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Indigenouspeoples</a> <a href="https://halo.nu/tags/NativeAmericans" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#NativeAmericans</a> <a href="https://halo.nu/tags/DonaldTrump" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#DonaldTrump</a> <a href="https://halo.nu/tags/Environment" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Environment</a> <a href="https://halo.nu/tags/USpolitics" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#USpolitics</a> <a href="https://halo.nu/tags/Alaska" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Alaska</a> <a href="https://halo.nu/tags/Mining" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Mining</a> <a href="https://halo.nu/tags/Mining" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Mining</a> <a href="https://halo.nu/tags/USnews" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#USnews</a>

MicheleV_AKWe saw a moose mom and yearling today on our walk. It was a very gloomy, windy day so this brightened our walk immensely! <a href="https://sfba.social/tags/Alaska" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Alaska</a> <a href="https://sfba.social/tags/AlaskaWildlife" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#AlaskaWildlife</a> <a href="https://sfba.social/tags/Moosetodon" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Moosetodon</a>

Nancy Gleason PhotographyA rock sandpiper (Calidris ptilocnemis) stands in shallow water in the nearshore zone of Kachemak Bay. Snow is accumulating on its back.I shot this on my Sony a6600 with the 200-600mm fully zoomed in, then cropped the photo.After this trip to Homer in March last year, I upgraded several personal items for cold weather photography - new mittens and snow boots to start. I was prepared for 20-30 F, but not with 15mph wind added to that chill. <a href="https://photog.social/tags/NaturePhotography" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#NaturePhotography</a> <a href="https://photog.social/tags/birds" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#birds</a> <a href="https://photog.social/tags/Alaska" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Alaska</a> <a href="https://photog.social/tags/BirdPhotography" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#BirdPhotography</a>

Lee PetersenPedicularis lanata (Woolly Lousewort) blooming near Nome Creek in the White Mountains, Alaska, in late May. The edible roots taste somewhat like carrots.Info in my Alaska Wildflower Guide: <a href="https://www.lwpetersen.com/alaska-wildflowers/woolly-lousewort-pedicularis-lanata/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://www.lwpetersen.com/alaska-wildflowers/woolly-lousewort-pedicularis-lanata/</a><a href="https://alaskan.social/tags/wildflowers" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#wildflowers</a> <a href="https://alaskan.social/tags/bloomscrolling" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#bloomscrolling</a> <a href="https://alaskan.social/tags/alaska" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#alaska</a>

Chuck Berray36 years ago today. I was the Chief Photographer at the ABC station in Anchorage. I will never forget our plane dropping out of the clouds over the wreck of the Exxon Valdez and being horrified at what we saw. I took this picture several months later as they were getting ready to tow it back to California. Today--not a mention in the local paper. <a href="https://alaskan.social/tags/Alaska" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Alaska</a> <a href="https://alaskan.social/tags/ExxonValdez" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#ExxonValdez</a>

MicheleV_AKThis is Mt. Spurr; it's a volcano and has been quite active for several weeks. The Alaska Volcano Observatory says there is a very good chance it will erupt, which hasn't happened since 1992, I think. We live very close to Mt. Spurr. I very much do NOT want it to erupt!! 😞 <a href="https://sfba.social/tags/Alaska" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Alaska</a> <a href="https://sfba.social/tags/MtSpurrVolcano" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#MtSpurrVolcano</a>

MicheleV_AKHoly CRAP!! 😲 Sperm whale in Prince William Sound near Valdez, Alaska. Photographer Todd Graven saw this guy yesterday and estimated his size at around 60 feet long. They don't usually go into PWS. The photo was taken by a drone. <a href="https://sfba.social/tags/Alaska" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Alaska</a> <a href="https://sfba.social/tags/AlaskaSeaLife" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#AlaskaSeaLife</a> <a href="https://sfba.social/tags/SpermWhale" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#SpermWhale</a> <a href="https://sfba.social/tags/Ginormous" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Ginormous</a>

Chuck BerrayNika has found her perfect spot on a sunny day 😂. <a href="https://alaskan.social/tags/Alaska" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Alaska</a> <a href="https://alaskan.social/tags/dogsofmastodon" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#dogsofmastodon</a>

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