Their promotiona work paid off. Two years later, 18 years before Wisconsin became a state, Yellowstone became the first national park in the United States and the world. Yellowstone 69 (large) United States national park - 2.2 million acres - until Wrangell-Saint Elias in Alaska, 70 became ...
A comparison of boreal forests of western Canada and Alaska, for which higher-quality fire patch datasets exist, shows that fire size tends to be underestimated by the GFA but the reported amplification by fire size in postfire summer surface warming was robust, with the regional datasets ...
recreational use. Presently, several states, including Alaska, California, Colorado, and others, permit the recreational use of cannabis, while additional states allow certain strains for medical purposes. This legalization trend has notably spurred the growth of the horticulture lighting industry in the...
(GFA) used in this study21. A comparison of boreal forests of western Canada and Alaska, for which higher-quality fire patch datasets exist, shows that fire size tends to be underestimated by the GFA but the reported amplification by fire size in postfire summer surface warming was robust, ...
Rank National Park State Acres Comparable Country, State or Island 1 Wrangell–St. Elias Alaska 8,323,146.48 Moldova 2 Gates of the Arctic Alaska 7,523,897.4 Maryland 3 Denali Alaska 4,740,911.16 Slovenia 4 Katmai Alaska 3,674,529.33 Connecticut 5 Death Valley California, Nevada 3,373,063.14...
In some jurisdictions, government ordinance may simply specify the minimum allowable septic tank size by:Number of bedrooms (as in our table above). For example the Alaska state regulation (18 AAC 72) specifies that the minimum septic tank size shall be 1000 gallons for a home with three or...
of storm surge, could rip refineries from their foundations. The result would be more than 100 million gallons of spilled oil and other hazardous substances requiring long-term remediation—tenfold worse than the 1989Exxon Valdezspill, which occurred in a remote part of Alaska. “You could b...
A federal judge in Alaska said last week that she hopes to rule by Jan. 6, the day of the scheduled lease sale, on a restraining order that could pause the plan. President-elect Biden has said he wants to grant the refuge coastal plain permanent protection from oil development. His nomi...