Alaska

Many Alaskans have no access to state roads and are reachable only by boat, airplane, dog sleds and snow machines; its insularity enabled Blockbuster Video to last a decade longer than almost anywhere else before its final store closed in 2018.The rusted, green-and-white bus where Christopher McCand...

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Summary:Many Alaskans have no access to state roads and are reachable only by boat, airplane, dog sleds and snow machines; its insularity enabled Blockbuster Video to last a decade longer than almost anywhere else before its final store closed in 2018.The rusted, green-and-white bus where Christopher McCandless starved to death in 1992 became a symbol of the Alaskan wilderness after Jon Krakauer told his story in Into the Wild it became such a popular destination that the state had to remove the bus by helicopter in 2020 it to prevent tourists from getting harmed looking for it. While this technically ended federal dominance, Washington remains the largest landowner in Alaska, with roughly 60 percent of the state’s total area under the supervision of more than a dozen federal agencies, including national parks, wildlife refuges, national forests, military bases and the North Slope National Petroleum Reserve. Tourism had become the No. 2 private employer, with cruise ships prowling the intra-coastal inlets amid glaciers and grizzlies and docking in Anchorage for side trips to Denali National Park and Preserve; warming of the Bering Sea has opened new ports of call. The Statehood Act of 1959 gave the state the right to choose its own public lands, but only after settling Native land claims. Because the Arctic Ocean ice broke up in late July back then, and for only six weeks, the only feasible way to get the oil out was a pipeline.
ISSN:0362-076X
2328-5257