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  Nenana Alaska [www.alaskatravel.com]
Nenana is in the western-most portion of Tanana Athabascan Indian territory.
The population of Nenana is a diverse mixture of non-Natives and Athabascans.
Nenana is classified as a highway town/Sub-Regional Center, it is found in EMS Region 1C in the Interior Region.
www.alaskatravel.com /printer/p-nenana.html   (1076 words)

  
 Nenana Alaska, Alaskan cities
The village of Nenana is located at the head of one of Alaska's most scenic valleys with Mt. McKinley visible on the horizon.
In April, a cable is attached to the tripod from a clock on shore.
Nenana's population grew dramatically with the building of the Alaska Railroad.
www.bellsalaska.com /nenana.html   (545 words)

  
 Nenana, Alaska - Home of the Nenana Ice Classic   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
Nenana is at mile 412 of the Alaska Railroad, on the south bank of the Tanana River (just east of the mouth of the Nenana River), and at mile 305 of the Parks Highway.
Nenana is in the westernmost portion of Tanana Athabascan Indian territory.
Nenana's population doubled in 1915 with the construction of the Alaska Railroad.
fairbanks-alaska.com /nenana.htm   (1087 words)

  
 www.ilovealaska.com/   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
Nenana is located at mile 412 of the Alaska Railroad, on the south bank of the Tanana River, just east of the mouth of the Nenana River.
Culture: The population of Nenana is a diverse mixture of non-Natives and Athabascans.
The City is developing a tourist economy, with the Alaska Railroad Museum, the Golden Railroad Spike Historic Park and Interpretive Center, the historical Episcopal Church, Iditarod dog kennels, and a replica of the sternwheeler Nenana.
www.ilovealaska.com /alaska/cities.cfm?cityid=218   (858 words)

  
 Nenana National Historic Landmark Nomination
From Nenana's port side, the view is over a large asphalted open area to a convention center and over a wide asphalted trail to a grassy, treed area occupied by a childrens' play area and to a few more buildings relocated from the Fairbanks downtown waterfront.
Nenana supplied Galena Air Base from which fighter aircraft were supplied to the Soviet Union as well as transporting supplies to a number of military establishments in the advance defense system in Alaska.
Weather, neglect, and souvenir hunters damaged Nenana at her berth on the river, and to protect, preserve, and interpret her the vessel was moved to a permanent protected dry berth in 1965.
www.cr.nps.gov /maritime/nhl/nenana.htm   (4599 words)

  
 NENANA, Alaska | Bearfoot Guides | On the Tanana and Yukon River on Alaska's Parks Highway. Railroad History, ...   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
Nenana is located at 64°33′50″N, 149°5′35″W. Nenana is located in Interior Alaska, 55 road miles southwest of Fairbanks on the George Parks Highway and 304 road miles northeast of Anchorage.
In Nenana, Alaska the population was spread out with 27.6% under the age of 18, 7.7% from 18 to 24, 22.6% from 25 to 44, 28.9% from 45 to 64, and 13.2% who were 65 years of age or older.
Nenana, Alaska also attracts independent travelers with fuel and supplies, the Alaska Railroad Museum, the Golden Railroad Spike Historic Park and Interpretive Center, the historical Episcopal Church, Iditarod dog kennels, and a replica of the sternwheeler Nenana.
www.bearfootguides.com /communities/nenana/nenana.htm   (2376 words)

  
 Nenana Fuel Co. v. Venetie (7/24/92), 834 P 2d 1229   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
Nenana Fuel subsequently obtained a stay of appeal, claiming that it had discovered new evidence which indicated that the Tribal Government and the Village Corporation had misrepresented their history to the court, and that they were not sovereign entities.
Nenana Fuel replied that the Tribal Government and the Village Corporation had waived any sovereign immunity by failing to raise that defense during the pendency of the underlying suit, and that the Village Corporation had also waived any sovereign immunity by including a "sue and be sued" clause in its corporate charter.
Alaska Management and Planning, 757 P.2d 32, 41 (Alaska 1988) (Rabinowitz, C.J., dissenting), this court held that in the absence of express recognition of tribal status by either Congress or the executive branch of the federal government, an Indian tribe may not avail itself of sovereign immunity.
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 Nenana District Court   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
The District Court in Nenana, in Alaska's Fourth Judicial District, is presided over by a magistrate, which is a judicial officer who handles certain district court matters in areas of the state where full-time district court judges are not required.
Nenana is also the headquarters for the annual Nenana Ice Classic, which gives Alaskans statewide a chance to guess on when the ice will break up on the Tanana River each spring.
Nenana is one of about 50 communities visited in 2001 by Justice Center researchers monitoring Alaska's compliance with the federal Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention Act of 1974.
justice.uaa.alaska.edu /images/features/nenanact.html   (200 words)

  
 Nenana Alaska - Alaska travel and tours with Homer Travel & Tours
Nenana, located in Interior Alaska, is just 55 road miles southwest of Fairbanks on the George Parks Highway, 304 miles northeast of Anchorage, and at mile 412 of the Alaska Railroad.
While over 50% of the year-round jobs are government-funded, the community has a strong private sector economy with a seasonal fluctuation as the center of rail-to-river barge transportation center for the Interior.
This is home of the Nenana Ice Classis, a lottery that is part of the ceremony of "Break Up", known in the Lower 48 as Spring.
www.alaskahomertravel.com /Interior/Nenana.htm   (213 words)

  
 Nenana, Alaska: Athabascan Beadwork
A group of Nenana women worked on beading floral designs for a new moosehide altar cloth in St. Mark’s Episcopal Church, a log chapel built in 1905.
These traditional slippers, beaded by Nenana artisan Nina Alexander, are shown with a portion of the altar cloth.
Nenana is an especially interesting community because of its strong Native American population.
www.myalaskanvacation.com /communities/nenana/nenana9.html   (162 words)

  
 Nenana Alaska Historic Alaskan Community
Toghotthele Hill is a very visible landmark, and why Nenana, long ago, became a traditional gathering place for hunting, fishing, trade, meetings and celebrations by different groups of Athabascan Indian.
Nenana Alaska is located at mile 305 of the Parks Highway.
This site is Nenana's community web site designed to provide you with links to whereever in Nenana you wish to go, and to introduce you to our community with some basic facts and pictures of life from Nenana's view of the world.
www.nenanahomepage.com   (638 words)

  
 Nenana, Alaska - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Nenana is a strong choice for locating regional and statewide offices due to a rural village type lifestyle yet close proximity to Fairbanks on the major north-south George Parks Highway.
Nenana has a strong private sector economy as the center of rail-to-river barge transportation center for the Interior.
Nenana is a center of dog mushing with a number of world class teams training in the area.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Nenana,_Alaska   (1613 words)

  
 Denali Alaska Rafting Trips : Nenana Raft Adventures
Alaska Range and forms the eastern border of Denali National Park.
With over 60 miles of river to choose from, the Nenana has peacefully clam, non-whitewater sections as well as large volume Class IV whitewater.
Trips can vary in length from 11/2 hour whitewater thrillers through the Nenana Gorge to multi-day helicopter supported trips which launch within sight of the Nenana's source glaciers.
www.alaskaraft.com /denali_rafting_trips.htm   (652 words)

  
 Nenana, Alaska: Camping at the Rivers of Alaska's Interior   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
Nenana, Alaska: Camping at the Rivers of Alaska's Interior
A bustling town on the Tanana River, Nenana is 53 miles south of Fairbanks, and is compact, fun to visit, and steeped in history.
Nenana is a lively town with a strong Native American community.
www.myalaskanvacation.com /communities/nenana/nenana1.html   (125 words)

  
 Alaska
Adam and Lyndy White, missionaries serving in Alaska with The Master's Mission since 1999, just telephoned the mission headquarters in North Carolina to report a wildfire that has moved to within 3 miles of the station in Nenana, Alaska.
Adam is moving the plane to the Tanana River at the Nenana Municipal Airport as a precaution.
The White Family, their residence, and mission station in Nenana are not in imminent danger.
www.mastersmission.org /alaska.htm   (635 words)

  
 Nenana News
Problems with Alaska's new touchscreen voting machines in several precincts slowed election returns Tuesday and caused elections officials to hand count and manually upload a still-unknown number of votes.
Residents of Nenana, Fairbanks and Healy will get a chance this week and next to comment on a proposal to use herbicides along the state's rail system.
With minimal activity on the fire, Alaska Division of Forestry released its final press release Monday on the situation.
www.topix.net /city/nenana-ak   (660 words)

  
 Nenana Area
The KIAM radio studio is situated in the village of Nenana, Alaska which has a population of about 500 people.
The village is on the south bank of the Tanana on the flat land that stretches southward to the Alaska Range.
South of Nenana, 65 miles, is Denali National Park (in the Alaska Range) where the famous Mt. McKinley is located.
www.vfcm.org /nenana.htm   (444 words)

  
 The Nenana Ice Classic: Betting on Warming
Since the Nenana temperature record was too fragmented to mean anything, with a big 15-year gap around 1980, the authors really had no excuse for using 1949 as a start date for determining trends since the Fairbanks and University record above covers the full period of ice breakup data.
It is clear from the Nenana Ice Classic data that there has been a slight trend toward earlier breakup dates, but nothing nearly as significant as that claimed by the authors - and hardly justifying a paper about it in a major journal.
My limited experience while working at the Alaska Climate Research Center was that snowfall served to insulate the river ice from the extreme cold, allowing the relatively warmer river to help melt the ice faster from beneath.
www.john-daly.com /nenana.htm   (2964 words)

  
 Huge fire near Nenana, Alaska still rages out of control - 58,000 acres and growing | AlaskaReport.com
A huge fire in Alaska grew to 58,000 acres Wednesday as it changed course away from the city of Nenana and headed toward the town of Anderson.
But the fire was still about four miles away from Anderson and was not considered a threat to the town, said fire information officer Tom Kempton with the interagency incident management team.
Alaska Report is a Alaska news, weather and commercial fishing website based in Juneau.
www.alaskareport.com /nenana10011.htm   (377 words)

  
 Travel Or Tour Pictures And Photos Of Nenana, Alaska, Ice Classic Page Twenty Four
The name Nenana is an Athabascan word which means "a good place to camp between the rivers." With its close proximity to the Alaska Railroad and Tanana River (which flows into the Yukon River), Nenana has played an important part in the development of the interior of Alaska.
Nenana is world famous for its Ice Classic, which started in 1917.
Nenana has traditionally been an important site for fishing and hunting camps by several different groups of Athabascan Indians.
www.delange.org /Alaska24/Alaska24.htm   (457 words)

  
 The History of Nenana, Alaska - ExploreNorth
The community is located in the Nenana Recording District.
The Nenana Ice Classic - a popular competition to guess the date and time of the Tanana River ice break-up each spring - began in 1917 among surveyors for the Alaska Railroad.
The photo of the Nenana train station is ©1997-2000 by Julie Coghill, and is used here with permission.
www.explorenorth.com /library/communities/alaska/bl-Nenana.htm   (479 words)

  
 Nenana Alaska
is located at the head of one of Alaska's most scenic valleys with Mt. McKinley visible on the horizon.
Nenana Visitor Information Center log cabin is located at the corner of Parks Highway and the entrance to Nenana.
Things To Do Alaska Railroad Museum, built in 1922, this is one of the few remaining original railroad depots and is now a railroad museum with interesting historical artifacts.
www.pinnacle-travel.org /Alaska/Nenana.htm   (568 words)

  
 Denali Outdoor Center Inflatable Kayak Adventures - Denali Alaska Tours | ALASKA.ORG Recommended
The river you will paddle is called the “upper stretch”and it is considered an easy section of the Nenana.
There are long stretches of calm water between rapids on this 14 - mile stretch of river, so there’s lots of time to relax, just float, and admire the mountainous view in the middle of the Alaska Range.
Alaska Railroad tracks run right next to the river at several points and you’re likely to solicit a loud horn blast from the engineer.
www.alaska.org /denali/denali-outdoor-center.jsp   (729 words)

  
 Nenana Alaska Chamber of Commerce : Alaska Tourism
Nenana has all services needed for the highway, river, railroad or small aircraft traveler.
Nenana, Alaska is a great place to visit!
Nenana's Chamber was formed in 1998 to fill the need of our businesses to organize, and to help our community with tourism.
home.gci.net /~webdesign/sites/nenanachamber   (194 words)

  
 Nenana Historic Alaskan Community
Nenana business people to gather on the Internet in about 98.
Nenana Chamber of Commerce purchased the site and now it is more of a community effort.
Nenana Alaska homepage- organizations business churches school all link together so our historic community can be found for
www.nenanahomepage.com /nenana/index.html   (442 words)

  
 Nenana Class E Airspace   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
Class E controlled airspace extending upward from 700 ft. above the surface in the Nenana Airport area is revised by this action.
Under that section, the FAA is charged with prescribing regulations to ensure the safe and efficient use of the navigable airspace.
This regulation is within the scope of that authority because it creates Class E airspace sufficient in size to contain aircraft executing instrument procedures for the Nenana Municipal Airport and represents the FAA's continuing effort to safely and efficiently use the navigable airspace.
www.alaska.faa.gov /at/Finalrules/nenana.htm   (814 words)

  
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www.welcometoalaska.com /Communities/nenana.htm   (1295 words)

  
 Nenana Depot History
The Nenana Depot was opened for service on December 12, 1922 as reported on page 485 in Bernadine Prince's two volume book THE ALASKA RAILROAD.
Nenana was not on the highway system until the 1960s with the completion of the Parks Highway.
This depiction of the working, north side, of the Nenana Depot in its glory days was probably taken about 10 pm in the evening judging from the midsummer shadows being cast on the East side of objects.
www.alaskarails.org /modeling/nenana-depot/nenana-depot-history   (2152 words)

  
 Alaska Whitewater Rafting : Denali National Park : Nenana Raft Adventures
Nenana Raft Adventures is located at beautiful Denali National Park, Alaska.
Flowing north through the heart of the Alaska Range, the Nenana River is the most popular whitewater river in Alaska.
Choose from a variety of raft trips suitable for families and children, adventurous first-timers and experienced whitewater paddlers.
www.alaskaraft.com   (79 words)

  
 AlaskaOne.com - Travel Planning Information for Alaska
Nenana is a welcome sight for motorists traveling the Alaska Highway.
Dog sled racing is a popular winter activity along Nenana's world-class mushing trails.
The Taylor Highway starts just 15 miles east of Nenana and leads to the famous "Forty Mile" and "Klondike" gold fields, the historic communities of Chicken and Eagle, and ultimately to the Yukon River.
www.alaskaone.com /nenana   (97 words)

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