Kodiak National Wildlife Refuge - Wikipedia The refuge has only six native species of mammals: Kodiak bear, red fox, river otter, ermine, little brown bat and tundra vole The non-native mammals Sitka black-tailed deer , mountain goat , Roosevelt elk , caribou , marten , red squirrel , snowshoe hare , and beaver were introduced to the archipelago between the 1920s and 1950s and are now
Chilkoot Trail - Wikipedia The Chilkoot Trail is a 33-mile (53 km) trail through the Coast Mountains that leads from Dyea, Alaska, in the United States] to Bennett, British Columbia, in Canada It was a major access route from the coast to Yukon goldfields in the late 1890s
National Register of Historic Places listings in Alaska The following are approximate tallies of current listings in Alaska on the National Register of Historic Places These counts are based on entries in the National Register Information Database as of April 24, 2008 [2] and new weekly listings posted since then on the National Register of Historic Places web site [3]
Innocent of Alaska - Wikipedia Innocent of Alaska (Russian: Иннокентий; August 26, 1797 – 12 April [O S March 31] 1879), also known as Innocent Metropolitan of Moscow, was a Russian Orthodox missionary priest, then the first Orthodox bishop and archbishop in the Americas, and finally the Metropolitan of Moscow and Kolomna
Alaska: Spirit of the Wild - Wikipedia Alaska: Spirit of the Wild is a documentary film featuring the landscape and wildlife of Alaska It is directed by George Casey, narrated by Charlton Heston and was distributed to IMAX theaters in 1997 Alaskan wildlife featured in the film include moose, bears, seals, wolves, caribou, and whales, while narrator Heston provides background
Chris McCandless - Wikipedia Jon Krakauer's non-fiction book Into the Wild (1996) expands upon his 1993 Outside article and retraces McCandless's travels leading up to the hiker's eventual death McCandless's story was adapted by screenwriter Chip Johannessen into a 1998 episode of Chris Carter's television series Millennium, titled "Luminary " [51]
Filipinos in Alaska - Wikipedia [2]: x Alaska's Filipino community has a long history of interaction and intermarriage with Alaska Native communities, and many Filipinos in Alaska also claim Alaska Native heritage In 2014, Filipinos made up 52% of Alaska's Asian and Pacific Islander population [1] In 2010, they represented 2 7% of Alaska's total population [3]
Wildlife of Malawi - Wikipedia The wildlife of Malawi is composed of the flora and fauna of the country Malawi is a landlocked country in southeastern Africa, with Lake Malawi taking up about a third of the country's area It has around 187 species of mammal , some 648 species of birds have been recorded in the country and around 500 species of fish, many of them endemic