A decade-long legal fight between Alaska and Bureau of Land Management trail access in a recreational area of the Fortymile River Area near Chicken ended with an agreement last week. The consent ...

Broad surfaces called terraces preserve ancient river floodplains and landscape history up to hundreds of meters above the Fortymile River, a tributary of the Yukon River, in eastern Alaska.

Tailings from placer mining operations a century ago have left some streams in Interior Alaska less than ideal for fish. Miners caused the damage, and now miners are trying to fix it. And in the ...

FAIRBANKS - When the military road from Fort Liscum in Valdez to Fort Egbert in Eagle was “completed” in 1900 it was little more than a rough trail, suitable only for saddle and pack horses. The U.S.

One hundred and twenty years after the first miners began panning for gold in the Yukon River, RESOLVE, a solutions-focused NGO, announced the launch of Salmon Gold, an innovative approach to sourcing ...

LOGAN, UTAH, USA - Scientists have long debated the idea that global climate changes have forced river erosion rates to increase over the past five million years. New field data gleaned from a ...

The abandoned works of a gold mining operation are seen along the Fortymile River in eastern Alaska. A nonprofit is working with placer miners in the area to reclaim gold for companies such as Apple ...

Using cosmogenic nuclide burial dating methods and optically stimulated luminescence dating, geoscientists establish ages for river deposits from the Yukon River basin that span key time periods of ...