Word: alaskas
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Both are competent amateur geologists. They have had more than 120 hours of instruction from NASA geologists, and they have practiced collecting rock and soil samples in lunarlike terrain such as the Grand Canyon, California's Medicine Lake highlands, the Arizona meteorite crater, the arctic wastelands of Iceland, and Alaska's Valley of Ten Thousand Smokes. Even their on-the-spot descriptions of the moon, to be transmitted instantaneously by radio to earth, should be of substantial value...
Computing Losses. Fires cause havoc in Alaska every year, but the Federal Bureau of Land Management, which has supervision over much of the state's wilderness, considers this fire season the worst since statehood was achieved ten years ago. Authorities hired 2,192 men to stop the flames. As the planes attacked a blaze by dropping chemical retardants at its edge, bulldozers would rush in to cut firebreaks through the timber. Fourteen Army riverboats were readied on the Yukon and Tanana rivers to rescue villagers trapped by the flames...
...firefighters. A few weeks of these wages can mean nearly a year's living for a village family in the interior. Also, as more people move into hitherto virgin territory, there is a greater chance of accidental fires. Until recently, about 80% of Alaska's fires were caused by lightning, 20% by man; the ratio is now nearly reversed. Careless campers on the Kenai Peninsula, for example, left the embers that last month destroyed 2,578 acres of prime timber, most of it in a national moose range...
...impossible. Faced with heavy losses of forest, wildlife and recreational areas, however, the state is cracking down on those whose carelessness starts fires, when possible making them pay for the damage they cause. Next year the authorities may close dry areas altogether. In the meantime, huge chunks of Alaska are simply disappearing into smoke...
...Once they were satisfied with a one-eighth share of profits; now they insist on bonuses or a larger slice of the earnings. The oil companies, which once farmed out much land to independents, now have much less to distribute because their attention has turned increasingly to offshore properties, Alaska and foreign lands...