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...Forest Service, for example, still sells off timbering rights, most recently in the Tongass and Chugach national forests. The Bureau of Land Management fights Alaska's grim forest fires; four years ago, one fire consumed a tract as large as Massachusetts. The Coast Guard protects the Alaskan fishing industry from constantly marauding Japanese, Russian and South Korean fishermen. As if to symbolize Washington's dominance, the Federal Building in Juneau is a huge glass-and-steel cube that literally overshadows the rambling old stone statehouse...
...house-hungry, comfort-starved Alaska, Shangri-La is a place called POW. Officially, POW is the 400-acre Port of Whittier, located on an arm of ice-free Prince William Sound and back-dropped by the glaciated peaks of the Chugach Mountains, which provide some of the world's wildest, most breathtaking scenery...
...window on the West." Last fall alone, Methodists opened three new colleges, including two in North Carolina, which has made its racial peace and developed a strong economy. Another sign of revival this year is Alaska Methodist University (140 students)-two sleekly modern buildings nestled against the snowy Chugach Mountains on a 500-acre campus near Anchorage...
...they have promise, but have not yet made any money. The first to do a real, paying job may be a small (10,000-kilowatt) plant that was approved this week by the Atomic Energy Commission. Designed by Nuclear Development Corp. of America, it. will be built for the Chugach Electric Association of Anchorage, Alaska, where electric power is scarce and expensive...
...Mount Sanford trip penetrated into a region, which cartographers have never even attempted to map and which is in the form of a strip of land 40 miles wide and extending for 125 miles along the Pacific coast. Located in the center of the Chugach Range about 50 miles from the Pacific Ocean. Saint Agnes pierces the clouds to a height of 13,250 feet above sea level...