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	Wolf Song of Alaska: Musk Ox
		Muskoxen thrived on Nunivak Island and increased from 31 in 1936 to an estimated 750 by 1968.
		Population: In 1990, approximately 2,220 free-ranging muskoxen resided in Alaska: 500 on Nunivak Island, 220 on Nelson Island, 500 in northern Alaska, 130 in northwestern Alaska, 700 on the Seward Peninsula, 150 on the Yukon-Kuskokwim Delta, with an additional 105 animals in captivity in domestic herds, research herds, and the Alaska Zoo in Anchorage.
		The Nunivak Island and Nelson Island populations have been stabilized by hunting; the other wild populations are expected to continue to increase and to expand their range.
	www.wolfsongalaska.org /wolves_cohabit_muskox.htm (1232 words)

	PBS - Harriman: Richard Nelson - Discovering Alaska
		Alaska's beauty is not just a reflection of nature's genius, but also of the human genius.
		We newcomers to Alaska -- as well as the inheritors of these traditions in Alaskan Native communities today -- might benefit by learning the ways in which Alaska's land and natural communities have been known, and by the wisdom of treating nature as an abiding place for spiritual power.
		Much of Alaska today remains as spectacular, as wild, as naturally diverse today as it was when the original Harriman Expedition traveled along this coast a century ago.
	www.pbs.org /harriman/explog/lectures/nelson2.html (1101 words)

	alaska (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		The southern Alaska convergent margin was intruded by a belt of Paleogene near-trench plutons known as the Sanak - Baranof belt, and we have completed a number of research projects on this belt of plutons.
		This orthorhombic fault system accommodated exhumation of deeper levels of the southern Alaska accretionary wedge, which is interpreted as a critical taper adjustment to subduction of progressively younger oceanic lithosphere yielding a shallower basal decollement dip as the ridge approached the accretionary prism.
		Kusky, T.M., 1997, Are the ultramafic massifs of the Kenai Peninsula, Chugach Terrane (Alaska) remnants of an accreted oceanic plateau?
	www.eas.slu.edu /People/TMKusky/alaska.html (1882 words)

	UW-ESS Faculty Directory
		His research interests are in the application of variations in radiogenic isotope compositions and trace element abundances to studies of the origin and evolution of continental crust, the chemical structure of mantle plumes and the suboceanic mantle, intraplate and mid-ocean ridge volcanism, the paleochemistry of sea water, and hydrothermal circulation systems at mid-ocean ridges.
		Nelson, B.K., Nelson, S.W., and Till, A.B. (1993) Nd- and Sr-isotope evidence for Proterozoic and Paleozoic crustal evolution in the Brooks range, northern Alaska: Journal of Geology, v.
		Nelson, B.K. (1995) Fluid flow in subduction zones: Evidence from Nd- and Sr-isotope variations in metabasalts of the Franciscan Complex, California: Contributions to Mineralogy and Petrology, v.
	www.geophys.washington.edu /People/Faculty-bio/nelson-bio.html (749 words)

	Deer to our culture
		Nelson was born in Madison, Wis. in 1941 and raised in neighboring Monona.
		Nelson's travels, mainly by dog team or skin boat to pursue seal, walrus, polar bear, and fish, produced field notes which were used by the Air Force and later developed into his book, Hunters of the Northern Ice published by the University of Chicago Press in 1969.
		Nelson interviewed farmers in several states including pumpkin farmer John Gellerman who said "For deer, pumpkins are like the peanuts at a bridge party.
	www.wnrmag.com /stories/1998/dec98/nelson.htm (2311 words)

	Secrets of the rainforest (Alaska's Tongass National Forest)
		Along the way, Nelson, who makes his living as a nature writer and anthropologist, kills the engine as humpback whales glide within yards of the boat, drizzling us with spray from their blowholes.
		Within 45 minutes, Nelson is easing the boat into a small bay near a fl sand beach strewn with bleached spruce, hemlock, and cedar logs, timber-operation escapees that have washed up with the tides.
		Members of Alaska's congressional delegation and the logging industry counter that the planned restrictions on the timber harvest are too extreme.
	www.ptialaska.net /~johnson/rainfor.html (2970 words)

	Nelson Island (Alaska) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Nelson Island or Qaluyaaq Island is an island in western Alaska, at 60°37′N 164°22′W.
		It is separated from the Alaska mainland to its east by a narrow channel and from Nunivak Island to its southwest by the Etolin Strait.
		Nelson Island was named after Edward William Nelson, a Smithsonian Institution naturalist who studied the island and people there in 1878.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Nelson_Island_(Alaska) (176 words)

	Alaska (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		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.
		Nelson is an anthropologist now writing full-time from his home in Sitka.
	www.uaf.edu /english/faculty/heyne/Alaska.html (1082 words)

	Poachers Thin New Musk Ox Herd in Alaska
		Alaska State Troopers say they believe eight men from a single village in the region traveled in recent weeks to a cluster of extinct volcanoes where the animals had gathered and within the past two weeks shot 10 to 12 of them using small-bore rifles at close range.
		Musk oxen once lived all over the Arctic, including northern and western Alaska, but with the advent of gunpowder were nearly driven to extinction.
		Now the two islands have a combined population of 900 animals, from which hunters take 120 or more bulls and cows every year.
	www.wolfsongalaska.org /news/Alaska_current_events_1267.htm (1088 words)

	Tsunami
		April 1, 1946 - A magnitude 7.3 earthquake occurred near Unimak Island in the Aleutian Islands west of Alaska, near the Alaska Trench.
		Because the coastline of Alaska is sparsely populated, only 122 people died from the tsunami in Alaska.
		Like all warning systems, the effectiveness of tsunami early warning depends strongly on local authority's ability to determine that their is a danger, their ability to disseminate the information to those potentially affected, and on the education of the public to heed the warnings and remove themselves from the area.
	www.tulane.edu /~sanelson/geol204/tsunami.htm (3302 words)

	PBS - Harriman: Richard Nelson
		Richard Nelson is a writer and cultural anthropologist who has lived in Southeast Alaska for twenty-five years.
		Nelson began to write when, as an anthropologist, he spent a number of years living with Eskimo and Indian people in Alaska.
		One of his books The Island Within, was written from the entries in a diary that spanned three years and numbered over three thousand pages.
	www.pbs.org /harriman/current/2001_part/nelson.html (228 words)

	Herring Fisheries Home Page: Division of Commercial Fisheries - Alaska Fish and Game
		Gulf of Alaska herring are genetically distinct from Bering Sea herring (Grant and Utter 1984) and are smaller and non-migratory, generally moving less than 100 miles among spawning, feeding, and wintering grounds.
		Alaska's commercial herring industry began in 1878 when 30,000 pounds were caught and prepared for human consumption.
		The commercial catch of herring for bait in Alaska began around 1900 and remained relatively stable, typically 4–6 million lb (1,800–2,700 mt) per year, in spite of very large fluctuations in the herring catch for the reduction, foreign, and sac roe fisheries.
	www.cf.adfg.state.ak.us /geninfo/finfish/herring/herrhome.php (743 words)

	Henry Wood Elliott: An American Artist in Alaska
		History remembers Henry Wood Elliott (1846-1930) as an eccentric character who helped save the Alaska fur seals from probable extinction, but he was also one of the first American artists to work in Alaska.
		His images of the Pribilof Island fur seals assisted the public in visualizing an animal and a way of life that most people had never seen.
		In an attempt to record the cultural life of Alaska's Native people for posterity, he lavished attention on his subjects' subsistence lifestyle, clothing, dwellings, and the tools needed for everyday living.
	www.nmnh.si.edu /naa/features/elliott.htm (1245 words)

	Alaska's World - News (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		Alaska Territory is now the nation’s 49th state and Nelson is Alaska Airlines’ first employee to mark a 50th, or golden, service anniversary.
		Nelson is only one of four employees in the company to receive a 45-year pin.
		One of 25 inspectors at the Seattle hangar, Nelson is responsible for ensuring repairs to Alaska aircraft meet the company’s high quality standards and conform to all FAA-approved procedures.
	www.alaskasworld.com /news/2000/07/28_CCNelson.asp (808 words)

	Dr. R. John Nelson
		Estimating deer colonization rates to offshore islands of Haida Gwaii, British Columbia, using microsatellite DNA markers (in press).Canadian Wildlife Service Occasional Papers Series, Ottawa.
		Nelson, M. Stoehr, G. Cooper, C. Smith, H. Mehl.
		Microsatellite analysis of the population structure of a Vancouver Island sockeye salmon (Oncorhynchus nerka) stock complex using non-denaturing gel electrophoresis.
	web.uvic.ca /~bioweb/People/nelson_r_john/nelson_r_john.htm (645 words)

	Muskox Photos and stock photography by Patrick J. Endres
		The muskox (Ovibos moschatus) is called omingmak meaning “the animal with skin like a beard” by Inupiaq-speaking Eskimos, a reference to the long guard hair that hangs nearly to the ground.
		The return of muskoxen to Alaska is an important success story in wildlife conservation.
		In 1990, approximately 2,220 free-ranging muskoxen resided in Alaska: 500 on Nunivak Island, 220 on Nelson Island, 500 in northern Alaska, 130 in northwestern Alaska, 700 on the Seward Peninsula, 150 on the Yukon-Kuskokwim Delta, with an additional 105 animals in captivity in domestic herds, research herds, and the Alaska Zoo in Anchorage.
	www.alaskaphotographics.com /muskox_photos.shtml (1212 words)

	New Things to Do -- Nutaraq Piicirkaq
		IN 1970, when the diocese of Fairbanks, Alaska, decided to train Eskimo deacons to minister in remote Alaskan villages, it was difficult to find Yup'ik words that described the concept.
		Joe Asuluk, a deacon in Toksook Bay on Nelson Island, Alaska, assists at a liturgy during a retreat Bp.
		When Winnie and Moses Julius of Toksook Bay lost their baby late in pregnancy, Deacon Asuluk assisted the grieving family by organizing a liturgy in the family's home for relatives and friends and leading them in prayers at this small grave at the village cemetery.
	www.companysj.com /v213/newthingstodo.htm (1252 words)

	Alaska Writer Bill Sherwonit (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		Alaska's brown bears tend to be more chocolatey in color and have smaller humps and shorter claws than their Interior relatives.
		We agree it was foolish to visit the island, given our earlier bear sighting, even more foolhardy to cut through the woods.
		As Richard Nelson, an Alaskan writer, anthropologist, and naturalist whose philosophy I greatly respect, says in The Island Within: "All it takes is once in a lifetime, the wrong bear in the wrong place.
	www.billsherwonit.alaskawriters.com /book3.html (1701 words)

	USFWS Background: Spectacled/Steller's Eider
		Historical reports of nesting Steller's eiders on the Aleutian Islands and Alaska Peninsula are unconfirmed and not substantiated by recent observations.
		Most Steller's eiders breeding in Alaska and Russia migrate south after breeding to molt along the coast of Alaska from Nunivak Island to Cold Bay, primarily in Izembek Lagoon, Nelson Lagoon, and near the Seal Islands.
		Causes of the decline world-wide and in Alaska are not known.
	www.r7.fws.gov /media/StellEider_FactSheet.htm (1147 words)

	Pearce, Native Village of Newtok, Alaska, Yukon Delta National Wildlife Refuge, Nelson Island
		We believe that surveys of the proposed Nelson Island lands should be conducted to determine the site and size for the Village.
		Air traffic to and from a new airport, if routed directly over Baird Inlet Island, could cause disturbances to birds at critical stages in their life cycle as well as be potentially hazardous to aircraft and the safety of the flying public.
		Increased boating activity adjacent to the island would be an additional source of disturbance to the birds as villagers travel to and from their traditional subsistence use area northwest of the new village site and when supplies are brought into the new village.
	www.doi.gov /ocl/2002/s2016.htm (1415 words)

	Other Wildlife in Alaska
		In Alaska, the territory of a pack average 600 square miles of habitat.
		In Alaska, however, they are commonly seen during long periods of summer daylight.
		The lynx is a large, short-tailed cat, similar to the bobcat, but distinguished by its long legs, furry feet, the long tufts on the tip of each ear, and a completely fl-tipped tail.
	www.alaskacruises.com /alaska_wildlife.asp?PageID=501 (1144 words)

	Hybrid grizzly-polar bear a curiosity
		Because he had heard that polar bears and brown bears had bred successfully in a zoo, Seaton was pretty sure Walker’s white-and-brown hide was from the mating of a polar bear and a brown bear.
		That combination of large bears is so rare that DNA testing of the hybrid bear shot recently off Banks Island in Canada’s high Arctic proved for the first time that a wild bear had a polar bear as its mother and a grizzly as its father.
		Dick Shideler, a biologist at the Alaska Department of Fish and Game in Fairbanks who studies the farthest-north grizzly, has documented grizzly bears on the northern sea ice off Alaska’s coast.
	www.gi.alaska.edu /ScienceForum/ASF18/1803.html (734 words)

	English And Language Arts
		Commercial fishing, the Nelson Island Area Schools and the City are the primary sources of income for local residents.
		Whether camping on the tundra, working in a fish camp, listening to elders' stories about the history of their village and native traditions or learning about stellar navigation and subsistence cycles, the institutes promise to provide unique learning experiences that are enriching and enlightening for all who attend.
		All content institutes will be hosted in Alaska villages, based on the Alaska state content standards and taught through a variety of innovative classroom and practical experiences.
	www.apte.alaska.edu /SummerInstitutes/2001/EnglishLA/index.html (441 words)

	Hunt Alaska: Muskox, Alaska Department of Fish and Game (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		The muskox is a stocky, long-haired animal with short legs and neck and slight shoulder hump.
		Cows are smaller, averaging approximately 4 feet in height and weighing 400 to 500 pounds.
		In 1990, approximately 2,220 free-ranging muskoxen resided in Alaska, on Nunivak Island, Nelson Island, north and northwestern Alaska, and on the Yukon-Kuskokwim Delta.
	www.wildlife.alaska.gov /index.cfm?adfg=huntalaska.muskox (349 words)

	Alaskan Eskimo Children's Games and Their Relationship to Cultural Values and Role Structure in a Nelson Island ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		The village of Tununak on Nelson Island in southwestern Alaska was the site of this field investigation into Eskimo children's games.
		The focus of investigation was the relationship between role structure in the community and player organization in games; the expressive nature of games as defined by specific values reflected in games and game behavior was also investigated.
		Due to the reserved nature of the Tununak people, the method of investigation was primarily observational, although questions were addressed to and answered by an atypical girl, two established white teachers, and an island native living off the Island who had returned for a summer visit.
	www.eric.ed.gov /sitemap/html_0900000b80101dfe.html (162 words)

	Central Yup'ik and the Schools
		This publication is available for purchase for $4.00 from the Alaska Native Language Center, Box 757680, University of Alaska Fairbanks, Fairbanks, AK 99775-7680, or by sending e-mail to fyanlp@uaf.edu.
		In Alaska, for example, in areas where the territory of one Native group bordered on another's, it was common for members of one group to speak the language of their neighbors as well.
		Alaska's linguistic diversity has no doubt occurred because Alaska is where Eskimo culture developed, spreading eastward only relatively recently (within the past one to two thousand years).
	www.alaskool.org /language/central_yupik/yupik.html (9017 words)

	Alaska Art by Artist - Aningayou, Aggie Ayagarak, Agnes Hailstone.. (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		Shelly was born in 1972 at Bethel, into a family rich with artistic talents.
		Her family originates from Nightmute on Nelson Island, Alaska.
		Shelly demonstrated her art at the Alaska Native Heritage Center and the Alaska Public Lands Information Center in 1999.
	alaskanativearts.org /Shop/Home.aspx?ArtistID=222 (380 words)

	Willie Nelson - NORML
		His early-70s merger of the traditional country and long-haired hippie audiences was called suicidal at the time, and has since come to be regarded as visionary.
		Outside the recording studio, Nelson established himself as a champion for the family farmer with his annual Farm Aid concerts.
		Today, Nelson divides his time between the road and his beloved Pedernales recording studio/golf course in the Hill Country outside of Austin, Texas.
	www.norml.org /index.cfm?Group_ID=5475 (508 words)

	The History of Nightmute, Alaska - ExploreNorth (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		Nightmute is located on Nelson Island, in western Alaska.
		Nelson Island has been inhabited by the Qaluyaarmiut, or "dip net people," for 2,000 years.
		The area was relatively isolated from outside contact, and has kept its traditions and culture.
	www.explorenorth.com /library/communities/alaska/bl-Nightmute.htm (112 words)

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