Jan 18, 2001 · They chose Amchitka Island, vacated by Native people more than 100 years earlier and used as a military base in World War II. In 1965, the Department of Defense drilled …

Checking for nuclear contamination isn't standard diving protocol, but they were working off Amchitka Island, the site of three atomic blasts in the late 1960s and 1970s. Jewett is a …

Sep 27, 2019 · Amchitka Island in the central Aleutians was the site of three underground nuclear blasts in 1965, 1969 and 1971. Alaska biologists convinced officials with the Atomic Energy …

News of the war in the Falkland Islands must surely bring back memories to veterans of the struggle for the Aleutians in World War II.

Jan 7, 2021 · Winds on the island registered more than 80 miles per hour. A buoy in the ocean south of Amchitka Island — farther east than Shemya in the middle of the Aleutian chain — …

Nov 22, 2017 · In 1949, Bob “Sea Otter” Jones, a biologist and World War II veteran hired by the refuge, started removing foxes from Amchitka Island. Since then, refuge biologists and hired …

May 12, 2005 · Now a senior biologist with the Alaska Maritime National Wildlife Refuge in Homer, Byrd in 1972 noticed round green spots on the island where fertilizer had leaked from bags. …

Feb 27, 2025 · Sea otters have had a rough time since Vitus Bering’s journey to Alaska: They were hunted almost to extinction in the 1700s and 1800s, made a comeback in the 1900s, …

Jul 8, 2004 · The foxes, stocked on every other island of the Aleutians, preyed upon goose nests, goslings, and adult birds when they molted and couldn’t fly. Jones, then manager of the …

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