The Ballinger-Pinchot controversy of 1909–1911 grew from conflicting claims about Alaska coal lands and the federal government’s conservation policies. In the United States, President Taft’s dismissal of Gifford Pinchot and…
In 1978, President Jimmy Carter utilized the Antiquities Act to designate 56 million acres of Alaska as national monuments after Congress failed to meet a legislative deadline. This massive exercise…
Scientists from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) discovered a mysterious, golden, dome-shaped object on the seafloor off the coast of Alaska. The specimen, found at a depth of…
