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  Red Fox: Wildlife Notebook Series - Alaska Department of Fish and Game
Red fox populations in Southeast Alaska are sparse, but the animal is found in the Taku and Stikine river valleys and the Mendenhall Flats.
The red fox measures 22 to 32 inches (56-82 cm) in head and body length, and the tail is 14 inches to 16 inches (35- 43 cm) long.
Foxes are quite vocal, having a large repertoire of howls, barks, and whines.
www.adfg.state.ak.us /pubs/notebook/furbear/redfox.php   (945 words)

  
 Nowitna Wild and Scenic River, Alaska   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
Of the river's 283-mile length, 223 miles is designated as a wild river, and the river corridor includes approximately 142,400 acres.
The Nowitna Wild River is an excellent example of a free flowing interior Alaska river that has seen limited development and which is expected to remain largely unchanged for many years into the future.
In 1992, it was decided that the projected use and potential conflicts on the river were minimal and did not necessitate the development of a river management plan or implementation of special regulations at this time to protect the river's resources.
www.nps.gov /rivers/wsr-nowitna.html   (547 words)

  
 Wolf Song of Alaska: Arctic Fox   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
The arctic fox (Alopex lagopus) is found in treeless coastal areas of Alaska from the Aleutian Islands north to Point Barrow and east to the Canada border.
Life history: Arctic fox pups are born in dens excavated by the adults in sandy, well-drained soils of low mounds and river cutbanks.
Foxes denning near rocky cliffs along the seacoast often depend heavily on nesting seabirds such as auklets, puffins, and murres.
www.wolfsongalaska.org /wolves_cohabit_afox.htm   (779 words)

  
 Fox River Alaska Resource Guide, City or community of Fox River, Alaska Facts, Information, Relocation, Real Estate, ...
The population of Fox River is approximately 382.
The distance from Fox River to Washington DC is 3848 miles.
Fox River is positioned 59.85 degrees north of the equator and 150.95 degrees west of the prime meridian.
www.usacitiesonline.com /akcountyfoxriver.htm   (201 words)

  
 Wolf Song of Alaska: Red Fox   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
The red fox (Vulpes vulpes), is the subject of many stories, songs, fables, and parables.
General description: Red foxes are members of the dog family Canidae, and their general appearance is similar to dogs, wolves, and coyotes.
During the 1920s, when fox fur was fashionable, silver fox pelts sold for up to $500 each.
www.wolfsongalaska.org /wolves_cohabit_rfox.htm   (974 words)

  
 FOXNews.com - New Alaska Oil Leases Being Offered - Politics | Republican Party | Democratic Party | Political Spectrum
WASHINGTON — The Interior Department is set to open a vast area of environmentally sensitive wetlands in Alaska to new oil drilling, even as opponents point to corroding pipelines to the east at Prudhoe Bay as a reason to keep the area off-limits.
The tens of thousands of acres in and around Lake Teshekpuk on Alaska's North Slope are part of the oil-rich Barrow Arch that also includes the Prudhoe Bay fields that have kept oil flowing for decades.
BP Alaska has said it is replacing two thirds of its 22-mile Prudhoe Bay feeder pipeline system because of corrosion.
www.foxnews.com /wires/2006Aug16/0,4670,AlaskaOil,00.html   (712 words)

  
 Red Fox Photos by Patrick J. Endres   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
The red fox is the subject of many stories, songs, fables, and parables.
Red foxes are members of the dog family Canidae, and their general appearance is similar to dogs, wolves, and coyotes.
The occurrence of fl-silver phase of Vulpe vlupes appears to increase toward the north and the northwest of Alaska.
www.alaskaphotographics.com /red_fox_photos.shtml   (806 words)

  
 Fox River State Critical Habitat Area, Alaska Department of Fish and Game
Located at the head of Kachemak Bay, Fox River Flats Critical Habitat Area encompasses expansive intertidal mud flats and a complex of low-lying marshlands in the lower Fox River Valley.
Residents of Kachemak Selo and other non-road communities at the head of Kachemak Bay, as well as cattlemen with grazing leases in the Fox River Valley, are the most frequent visitors to the area year-round.
The Fox River Flats trail extends from the beach up the valley along the toe of the bluff.
www.wildlife.alaska.gov /index.cfm?adfg=refuge.fox_river   (503 words)

  
 Arctic Animals of Alaska
Animals that live in Alaska's Arctic region must be able to survive long winters and very cold temperatures.
Alaska is the northernmost and largest state of the United States.
In the summer it is brown and blends in with the grasses.
score.rims.k12.ca.us /activity/alaska   (1466 words)

  
 Natural Recovery, the No-Action Alternative Doublespeak
For example, most of the PCBs flowing down the Fox River are incorporated in the lipid (fat) layer on the outside of algae (tiny plants floating in the water.) These PCBs can then be accumulated up the food chain, preserved by biological organisms, fish and waterfowl.
The PCB threat to the Fox River and Bay may gradually decline over the coming centuries, but this is not “natural recovery,” rather it is the widespread dispersal of PCBs to Lake Michigan, the air, and burial of PCBs at the bottom of the River, Bay and Lake.
PCB dumping in the Fox River began in 1954 and peaked around 1970.
www.foxriverwatch.com /natural_recovery.html   (933 words)

  
 Alaska
Alaska is an American colony, and the literature of Alaska has reflected that colonization.
Thirty-five years in Alaska have given Tom Sexton's poetry range and ease, a powerful feeling of being at home, complicated by an equally profound sense of loss and the passage of time.
Ann Fox Chandonnet's poetry moves quietly back and forth between white and Native experience, revealing what is universally human.
www.uaf.edu /english/faculty/heyne/Alaska.html   (1082 words)

  
 Fox River - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The Fox River is the name of two different rivers on the West Coast.
A third Fox River (Wabash tributary) in Illinois that is a tributary of the Wabash River near New Harmony, Indiana.
Fox River State Penitentiary, is a fictional prison in Illinois in the TV Show Prison Break
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Fox_River   (179 words)

  
 Fishing International - Alaska Naknek River - FOX BAY LODGE
Fox Bay Lodge offers several outstanding Salmon and Trout fishing, remote Ptarmigan wing shooting, and scenic wildlife viewing trips on the Naknek River, the surrounding streams and lakes located within the greater Bristol Bay and Katmai National Park area.
Fox Bay Lodge offers some of the finest and most abundant salmon and trout fishing in North America.
Katmai, home of Brooks Falls, one of the largest Bear Viewing areas in all of Alaska, is a short flight from the lodge located on the Naknek River, known for massive salmon runs and trophy rainbow trout.
www.fishinginternational.com /location/alaskfox.htm   (698 words)

  
 Red Fox Fun Facts, Alaska Department of Fish and Game
Red foxes are practical and provident at mealtime, and hardly picky—they'll eat just about anything from muskrats and squirrels to plants and eggs.
In the early 1900s, red foxes were introduced on many islands in southeastern Alaska and reared on commercial fox farms.
Red foxes seem particularly savvy to the methods of their former masters and are notoriously difficult to trap.
www.wildlife.alaska.gov /index.cfm?adfg=funfacts.redfox   (203 words)

  
 Fox River, Alaska (AK) violent and property crime - Sperling's BestPlaces
Fox River, AK, violent crime, on a scale from 1 (low crime) to 10, is 1.
Violent crime is composed of four offenses: murder and nonnegligent manslaughter, forcible rape, robbery, and aggravated assault.
Fox River, AK, property crime, on a scale from 1 (low) to 10, is 1.
www.bestplaces.net /city/profile.aspx?cat=CRIME&city=Fox_River_AK&ccity=   (97 words)

  
 Silver Fox Roadhous – Alaska pike fishing
Area that are accessible for fishing from the Silver Fox Roadhouse.
Alaska Dept. of Fish and Game has an ongoing stocking program in these lakes to take the pressure off of some of the local streams which can become over-fished and deplete the native fish.
This fishery is one of interior Alaska's premier waters for Northern Pike.
www.silverfoxroadhouse.com /pike.htm   (293 words)

  
 Alaska Public Lands
Arctic Grayling and Dolly Varden are abundant in Refuge rivers.
Beaver Creek NWR is a Class I, clear water river, that flows past jagged limestone peaks in the White Mountains and through the Yukon Flats National Wildlife Refuge before joining the Yukon River.
The Campbell Tract is a 730-acre natural area used mostly by urban recreationists seeking a piece of Alaska wilderness in the heart of the city.
www.biggamehunt.net /sections/Alaska/public_lands/page1.html   (740 words)

  
 Alaska National Parks   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
We are happy to provide this overview of some of Alaska’s largest and most visited national parks, courtesy of the National Park Service.
The Chigmits, where the Alaska and Aleutian Ranges meet, are an awesome, jagged array of mountains and glaciers which include two active volcanoes, Mt. Redoubt and Mt. Iliamna.
Lake Clark, 40 miles long, and many other lakes and rivers within the park are critical salmon habitat to the Bristol Bay salmon fishery, one of the largest sockeye salmon fishing grounds in the world.
www.gofox.com /alaska/parks.php   (829 words)

  
 Arctic Fox
For northern foxes, the coat is white in the winter and molts to brown in summer.
Arctic foxes generally live for up to 15 years in captivity, with their life span in the wild averaging 7 years.
The Alaska Department of Fish and Game is a good resource for learning more about arctic foxes in Alaska.
www.alaskazoo.org /willowcrest/arcticfoxhome.htm   (559 words)

  
 TRG - Talkeetna River Guides | Talkeetna, Alaska | Scenic Float Trips & River Rafting
Explore the lower end of the famous Talkeetna River, which is steeped in history and the Alaskan pioneering spirit.
At the river's edge, you will participate in a brief safety lecture before launching and floating down six to eight miles of pristine river.
At the river's edge, you will participate in a brief safety lecture and demonstration before launching and floating the nineteen miles of the glacial-fed Chulitna back to Talkeetna.
www.talkeetnariverguides.com /trips.html   (977 words)

  
 The Birds of North America Online: Fox Sparrow
H, I: Songs of the Red Fox Sparrow, whether from Newfoundland (H) or Copper River drainage in Alaska (I), consist mostly of pure whistles, and each male tends to have a single song form.
In Alaska, Red forms also have song dialects; songs from Copper River drainage, for example, are different from those in rest of Alaska, and males from Copper River drainage do not respond to playback of songs from elsewhere, and vice versa.
If a male Red Fox Sparrow in Newfoundland has 2 songs, he alternates them, in A B A B A B format (Blacquiere 1979), though Red forms in Alaska with 2 types do not always alternate (L. Peyton unpubl.).
bna.birds.cornell.edu /BNA/demo/account/Fox_Sparrow/SOUNDS.html   (2051 words)

  
 Southeast Alaska: Mammal Fossils
Arctic fox and red fox were recovered that dated to the glacial maximum (and to the preceding time interval for arctic fox), so they were survivors from the Ice Age.
In the case of brown bear, a genetic study of modern populations suggests that a population was isolated in Southeast Alaska during the Last Glacial Maximum.
Since foxes are much more likely to cache food in their dens than bears, they are probably responsible.
www.usd.edu /esci/alaska/mammals.html   (2116 words)

  
 Fox River Cleanup Plan Weakened
Though the cleanup has been extended a short way out from the river mouth, the plan ignores concentrations of PCBs in several other areas of the southern Bay, where the highest public health risks will be allowed to persist for hundreds of years into the future.
The most disturbing aspect of the Fox River announcement is the weakness of the 1 ppm PCB cleanup target.
Foran's stronger.25 ppm PCB dredging target would allow fish advisories to be lifted almost immediately after dredging in the river, and would greatly reduce the quantity of PCBs flowing downstream to Green Bay.
www.foxriverwatch.com /Final_PCB_ROD.html   (924 words)

  
 Fox River, Alaska - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Fox River is a census-designated place (CDP) in Kenai Peninsula Borough, Alaska, United States.
The town might have been named for Theodore Fox, a local mining magnate.
Fox River is located at 59°50′51″N, 150°55′34″W (59.847372, -150.926178)
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Fox_River,_Alaska   (400 words)

  
 Alaska Personal Journeys: Yukon River
Approximately 2,000 miles in length, this broad, flat and fast river is the third longest river in North America.
One-fifth of the peregrine falcons in the world occurs along the bluffs of the Yukon River in Alaska and its tributaries.
Campsites on beaches and along river bars with colorful bluffs and mountains as backdrops are the perfect settings for a tradition.
www.alaskapersonaljourneys.com /yukon.htm   (1198 words)

  
 Alaska River Rafting - Talkeetna River Guides | ALASKA.ORG Recommended
The four-hour Chulitna River Raft Tour is a favorite of guests staying at the McKinley Princess Lodge, just 20 minutes from the launch point.
Rafting down 19 miles of river, through pristine wildlands of Denali State Park (and the borderlands of Denali National Park) on your way back to Talkeetna, you will take in scenery most folks only read about or see on TV.
This remote portion of the river is prime bald eagle, bear, salmon, and moose habitat.
www.alaska.org /talkeetna/talkeetna-river-guides.jsp   (671 words)

  
 Alaska red fox facts and photos. Red fox pictures, red fox information, habits, identification.
Red fox pictures, red fox information, habits, identification.
Alaska Red Fox Facts, Information about the prettiest member of the dog family, the Alaskan Red Fox
The red fox (Vulpes vulpes), is the subject of many stories, songs,
www.alaskan-adventures.com /alaska-red-fox.htm   (957 words)

  
 Southeast Alaska: El Capitan Cave
El Capitan Cave is the largest known cave in Alaska, and is also the first cave in Southeast Alaska where fossil bones were discovered.
This peculiar distribution pattern had led biologist David Klein to propose that as brown bears moved southward from Alaska and fl bears moved northward from the lower states following deglaciation, the first species of bear to colonize any island was able to exclude the other.
This red fox jaw and an upper canine were found in El Capitan Cave and, like brown bear, represent a species no longer living on Prince of Wales Island (left).
www.usd.edu /esci/alaska/elcap.html   (1304 words)

  
 Travel to Alaska with Alaska Adventure Travel Guides offering Travel Information and Tours
Alaska’s Arctic is home to the Inupiat Eskimos, many who still live a subsistence lifestyle and still preserve their history verbally from generation to generation.
The forests are teeming with wildlife and bird life ranging from the formidable grizzly to stately herds of caribou to the state bird, the Willow Ptarmigan.
Home to over half of Alaska’s population, Southcentral is a playground of activities from world-class fishing to hiking and wildlife viewing.
www.welcometoalaska.com /Travel.htm   (568 words)

  
 Cape Fox Lodge in Ketchikan, Alaska
The Cape Fox Lodge is a first-class hotel located within the heart of the Tongass National Forest, only 2 miles from Ketchikan International Airport.
Situated on a hill, overlooking the city, the hotel has an interior décor reminiscent of a ski lodge with a river rock fireplace, pine-beamed ceilings and overstuffed furniture.
Cape Fox Lodge is located on the hilltop.
www.hotel-rates.com /us/alaska/ketchikan/cape-fox-lodge.html   (392 words)

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