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Alvin Eli Amason (born 1948) is a Sugpiaq Alaskan painter and sculptor.He was raised in Kodiak and is of Alutiiq ancestry. He received his Master of Fine Arts from Arizona State University and taught for several years at Navajo Community College.
Fairbanks M&P logo used until 2010 features Saturn behind one of the museum's polar bears. The town of St. Johnsbury had a long history with the Fairbanks family, having been the location of the Fairbanks Scales headquarters and factories since the 1820s, as well as several other mansions and estates owned by members of the family.
Hoshino died after being mauled by a brown bear in Kurile Lake on the Kamchatka Peninsula in eastern Russia on August 8, 1996. [9] In early August 1996, Michio Hoshino flew to the South Kamchatka Federal Wildlife Reserve accompanied by three Japanese cameramen who were making a documentary film about the photographer.
On July 27, 2007, the refuge adopted the brown bear Killisnoo, its first cub. At seven months old and 52 pounds (24 kg), he had been rescued by the Alaska Department of Fish and Game in Angoon and was the runt. After Killisnoo's mother had accompanied a cook into a fishing inn's gallery, she had been killed.
Durfee grew up in Fairbanks, Alaska and Monroe, Utah. [1] [2] He played high school football, [3] [4] then served a mission for the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in Connecticut, [4] though he is no longer a practicing member of that church. [5] He graduated from Brigham Young University with a degree in illustration and fine arts ...
Bear danger area closure sign of the type used at Denali National Park and Preserve. This is a list of human deaths caused by bear attacks in North America by decade in reverse chronological order. These fatalities have been documented through news media, reports, cause-of-death statistics, scientific papers, or other sources.
In February 1979, young polar bear twins (Nuka, a female, and Siku, a male) joined Binky in his enclosure. [11] [12] Binky got along poorly with Siku, however, so Siku was given to a zoo in Morelia, Mexico, in 1981. [13] [14] As a full-grown bear, Binky weighed 1,200 pounds. [12] He was an aggressive bear; in 1980, he bit off a zoo employee's ...
The University of Alaska Fairbanks (UAF or Alaska) is a public land-, sea-, and space-grant research university in College, Alaska, United States, [9] a suburb of Fairbanks. It is the flagship campus of the University of Alaska system. UAF was established in 1917 and opened for classes in 1922.