The Official U.S. Air Force Small Shelter System The Alaska Small Shelter System®is the only military shelter successfully tested to meet all the requirements in the U.S. Air Force’s Operational Requirements
first-served basis. They are located at Manzanita Bay, Nooya Lake, Punchbowl Lake, and Winstanley Lake. The Manzanita Bay shelter is adjacent to salt water. The others are on freshwater lakes and are accessible by trail from salt water
I’ve always had shelter. I’ve always had enough food. I’ve never been displaced. And because of this I’ve always trusted that things will turn out okay. How much greater a person’s trust must have to be when all the structures of their lives have been pulled out from underneath...
38 Lichens Downy woodpeckers and chickadees forage over lichen-covered surfaces, hunting for small invertebrates. Lichens are a major food of caribou, whose digestive system is effective at extracting lichen nutrients. Deer (left) and mountain goats (right) eat lichens, especially in winter when ...
Basins are not a source of noise themselves, but they are structures that distort seismic waves and also influence how external noise sources (e.g., wind) couple to the solid Earth. Seismic stations in the Minto Flats region provide a natural laboratory for investigating several variables ...
The richest lagoon systems contained both small lakes and true lagoons, allowing them to support the highly valued coho or silver (Oncorhynchus kisutch) and red or sockeye (Oncorhynchus nerka) salmon. The gold standard among these was perhaps the Ankau lagoon system near Yakutat, which was ...