Photo archive for April 1, 2008
Nikolai elders Verdrisia and Nick Dennis helped Cantwell student BJ Gore build the traditional moosehide skin boat. The project served as Gore's senior internship.
Alaska Natives used to make these moosehide skin boats to carry moose meat downstream, after hunting, using the moose hide as the hull and spruce poles for the frame. The boat BJ Gore created in Cantwell is a miniature version, using one moose hide.
Brian Galbraith appears in court Tuesday, April 2, 2008, where the charges against the 51-year-old man were dismissed in the stabbing death of a mental health worker. The State's attorney general's office must begin the process of committing Galbraith to an institution.
Neil Hahn of the Fairbanks International Airport Field Maintenance Crew maneuvers a piece of snow removal equipment as the front viewing field at Creamer's Field Migratory Waterfowl Refuge is plowed in preparation for grain spreading and the spring waterfowl migration Tuesday morning, April 1, 2008. The first geese usually arrive at the popular migration stopover during the second week of April.
Forrest Long makes a cast while fly fishing for grayling in the Chena River along Phillips Field Road Tuesday afternoon, April 1, 2008. The fish still weren't biting for Long, an Alaska Railroad conductor from Peters Creek and avid fisherman. Long tried fishing the stretch of open water a couple weeks ago when he was in town for work but his line kept freezing up.
Pussy willows bloom in the sunshine along Chena Landing Loop Road Tuesday, April 1, 2008.
New York Yankees center fielder Melky Cabrera, left, celebrates with a kick as left fielder Johnny Damon greets right fielder Bobby Abreu after the Yankees defeated the Toronto Blue Jays 3-2 in a baseball game at Yankee Stadium in New York, Tuesday, April 1, 2008. (AP Photo/Kathy Willens)
Junior high double bronze medalist Brendan Wehde (138), of Nome, powers up the formidable White Mountain hill to catch up to the high school girls wave that went out before him during the biathlon race at the 21st Western Interior Ski and Biathlon Championships. Unalakleet's Sierra Corsetti (121) and Nome's Tara Schmidt (116) would go on to take silver and bronze in the high school girl's division.
This undated photo provided by the USGS Alaska Science Center shows a black-capped chickadee, the most affected birds of "long billed syndrome." "Long-billed syndrome'' has been recorded in about 160 birds by a Skagit County researcher, mostly in Western Washington and southern British Columbia and mostly since 2000.
Sean Dickey with Pinnacle Construction installs a sign on a new fuel pump at a Chevron gas station in Anchorage on Tuesday, April 1, 2008. The BP building and fuel prices are seen in the background. Top executives of the country's five biggest oil companies said Tuesday they know record fuel prices are hurting people, but they argued it's not their fault and said their huge profits are in line with other industries.
Cantwell High School senior BJ Gore stands behind the traditional moosehide boat that he helped craft.
Kiana Carlson of Cantwell checks out the completed boat.
A look at the interior framing of the moosehide boat.
BJ Gore, right, shapes a spruce pole with an ax as he and Nick Dennis work on the framework of the moosehide boat.
Cantwell High School senior BJ Gore peels spruce pole for the boat framework.
BJ Gore and Nick Dennis work on the boat frame.
Verdrisia Dennis of Nikolai prepares the moosehide for the boat.
Denali School District career counselor Joel Lueders and Nick Dennis choose spruce poles for the boat framework.
Nick Dennis, 80, of Nikolai draws plans for a traditional moosehide boat.
Olivia Johns, 2 1/2, climbs through playground equipment at Pioneer Park while playing with brother Mikko and friends Alessia and Celeste Lungren as temperatures climbed above freezing Monday afternoon, March 31, 2008. The children were accompanied by their mothers, Tera Johns and Tiziana Lundgren.
Veterinarian Kobi Johnson tends to a woozy Zorro at Tacoma,Wash., Veterinary Imaging Center on Monday, March 31, 2007. "His best chances were 50-50 until we got the MRI," says Johnson, who was in Alaska as champion musher Lance Mackey's private vet during the 408-mile All Alaska Sweepstakes sled dog race. The 9-year-old faces weeks of recovery from four broken ribs and severe bruising suffered when he was hit Friday by a snowmachine near Nome, at the end of the race.
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Chicago Cubs right fielder Kosuke Fukudome, from Japan, follows through on a double to center field during the second inning of his major league baseball game debut against the Milwaukee Brewers at Wrigley Field in Chicago, Monday, March 31, 2008.
Kimberly Doheny, lab director at the Center for Inherited Disease Research at Johns Hopkins University, holds an example of a slide used for testing DNA , Friday, March 21, 2008, in Baltimore. The DNA scanners used in the lab, blue boxes each about twice as big as a desktop printer, will reveal what DNA "letter" appears in more than 580,000 spots in the genetic material, said Doheny.
Kimberly Doheny, lab director at the Center for Inherited Disease Research at Johns Hopkins University, poses next to a DNA scanner, Friday, March 21, 2008, in Baltimore. The scanners, blue boxes each about twice as big as a desktop printer, will reveal what DNA "letter" appears in more than 580,000 spots in the genetic material, said Doheny.
A robotic arm prepares to put drops of DNA-bearing solution on a slide during a demonstration of the DNA scanner at the Center for Inherited Disease Research at Johns Hopkins University, Friday, March 21, 2008, in Baltimore. The scanners, blue boxes each about twice as big as a desktop printer, will reveal what DNA "letter" appears in more than 580,000 spots in the genetic material, said lab director Kimberly Doheny.
This is my favorite picture of our daughter Reese and our Golden Retriever Barkley. It was taken last fall here in Fairbanks.
This photo of Cameron Faro, age 2, was taken when he was sledding on March 23.