Dunleavy administration proposes millions for biggest Alaska farming project in decades
Print article JUNEAU The administration of Gov. Mike Dunleavy is seeking $5 million for a 100,000-acre farming project west of the Interior town of Nenana. It’s one of a series of agricultural and land-development projects proposed by the governor in amendments to the annual capital budget, which funds construction and renovation projects across Alaska. Land sales in the new Nenana-Totchaket farming district could take place as soon as fall 2022, said Dave Shady, director of the Alaska Division of Agriculture, and if the project is fully developed, it would be the largest state-funded agricultural venture in Alaska since the failed Delta Barley Project of the 1970s and 1980s.
on local history by local historian David Reamer. Have a question about Anchorage history or an idea for a future article? Go to the form at the bottom of this story. William Watson Woolen’s posthumously published Alaska history and travelogue, “The Inside Passage to Alaska,” includes his 1915 journey into Upper Cook Inlet. He traveled north, past Point Possession, past Fire Island and past Point MacKenzie before anchoring near the mouth of Woodrow Creek on the eastern side of Knik Arm. A group of government engineers camped out near the beach greeted his arrival. Woolen wrote, “Since then the town of Woodrow with a large population has come into existence, with a post office, general stores, blacksmith and machine shops. It is a port of call for all steamships making Cook Inlet, and has telephone and telegraph communications with Seward.”
Small Quake Shakes Off Oregon Coast This Weekend As Another Rattles Alaska
Published 02/28/21 at 5:20 PM PDT
By Oregon Coast Beach Connection staff
(Bandon, Oregon) – A small earthquake shook off the southern Oregon coast early Saturday morning, clocking in at a minor 4.0 in magnitude. Meanwhile, a larger quake rattled parts of southern Alaska a bit later in the day, reminding some Oregonians of the quake there that caused a tsunami here in the 60s.
(Graphic courtesy Pacific Northwest Seismic Network. Other recent tremblors are in yellow)
The undersea quake took place about 250 miles off the south coast, this time in more of a straight line westward from Dunes City instead of the usual Coos Bay or Reedsport. At a magnitude 4.0 it was not strong enough to generate a tsunami; it takes at least a 7.0 to do that. The quake shook at 5:33 a.m. Saturday at a depth of about six miles.
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