Phillip Blanchett oral history interview as conducted by an unknown source. Phillip Blanchettof the band Pamyua talks about the band, which uses song and dance to interpret native chants and songs, and he discusses growing up in Alaska.
Jim King shares some of his memories of Cal Lensink while attending Cal's retirement party. Tape transcribed by: Mary E. Smith, 4120 Dorothy Drive, Anchorage, AK 99504 907/333-0092
Bob Weeden and Ginny Wood oral history interview. Note: The interviewers are not identified at any time on the tape. There are at least two interviewers (possibly three) – one (or two) male and one female. Their comments are not identified...
The shallows along an Alaskan sandbar or lake edge were a convenient put-down location for a “Widgeon” seaplane engaged in spot checks of Alaska anglers in 1949. Here, C.L. Anderson, director of Alaska’s Territorial fisheries department and...
Clarence Rhode (d.1958) traversed the Yukon River by rowboat as a boy, flew the Alaskan outback as a bush pilot during the Second World War, and supervised the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service’s aircraft division in Alaska following his Army...
Ships; Boats; History; Marine Environments; Wildlife refuges; History Sites
Ship in WWII Alaska waters. This small ship was reported to be the Vanderbilt yacht before WWII. Gerneral Simon Boliver Buckner sailed throughout Alaskan waters in early WWII. Many of the historic WWII sites in Alaska waters are in Alaska Maritime...
A young Alaskan and his grandfather went out for a day of fishing near Kenai National Wildlife Refuge. The grandson caught his first fish. It is a rainbow trout, 18 1/2 inches long and 11 1/2 inches around.
Videography;u.s. fish and wildlife service;wildlife refuges;
The Yukon Flats National Wildlife Refuge is a vast, extreme, wild, and vital landscape. Within its boundaries are 11 million acres of roadless lands that straddle the Arctic Circle.
