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Fri Sep 21, 2012

School board candidate forum focuses on technology, parent support. Visiting photojournalist explores the hydropolitics of the Israel/Palestine conflict. No red or blue king crab fishing in Southeast this season.

Cannondog

Nanuck, the dog, takes a flying leap into Heart Lake near Sitka on Thursday afternoon (9-20-12). Temperatures throughout the region topped 60, with clear skies and light winds. Elsewhere in the state, however, Anchorage and the Mat-Su experienced their second severe windstorm of the fall.

Conservation staffers work on fisheries, resource projects

Sitka Conservation Society staffers Natalia Povelite (Tongass salmon organizer), Ray Friedlander (Tongass forest organizer), and Courtney Bobsin (Jesuit Volunteer, Fish-to-Schools) discuss their respective projects, and why they chose to work in Sitka.

Thu Sep 20, 2012

Biologists spot "glacier deer" during goat survey. KCAW mayoral candidate forum draws many calls. Listen to the entire forum. Kake contract could be a model for small-scale Tongass restoration. Southeast power agency explores storing hydro power using hydrogen.

Goat survey finds “glacier deer”

Alaska Department of Fish & Game biologist Phil Mooney was tagging mountain goats on Baranof Island outside of Sitka in late August and saw the unusual animal from his helicopter.The Sitka black-tailed deer is a buck, still in velvet. The animal is a very light, bluish gray. When a black bear has this kind of coloring, it’s called a “glacier bear.”

Glacier deer

Move over, glacier bear, the "glacier deer" is here. Biologists working on a survey of mountain goats spotted the light-gray buck from a helicopter on August 20, 2012. The rare coloring is uncommon in Sitka black-tailed and other varieties of mule deer -- but not true albinism. ADF&G biologist Phil Mooney says it's due to a recessive gene. This pair of animals was among a herd of 14 bucks and 2 does "somewhere up high on Baranof Island."