News across Chugach Census Area

Mapping tsunamis, building trust
By Sara Wilbur While taking a quick shower before her son’s fourth birthday party on Dec. 26, 2004, tsunami scientist Elena Troshina heard the phone ring. Deciding it was worth jumping out, she picked it up — with kids, you never know. From her office within the Alaska Earthquake…

Goat hunt RG252 closes east of Unakwik Inlet
Registration permit hunt RG252 for mountain goats in Game Management Unit 6D closed by emergency order at 11:59 p.m. Sept. 20, according to the Alaska Department of Fish & Game. The hunt includes areas east of Unakwik Inlet and Meares Glacier, west of the Columbia Glacier, and…

Getting to the bottom of copper’s rise to the top
Kennecott has been spruced up quite a bit since my last visit there nearly 30 years ago, Rod Boyce writes.